US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Feb. 17 for "Nanomaterial plastic optical fiber for pipeline nerve system" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,768, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Nanomaterial plastic optical fiber for pipeline nerve system" was invented by Ali Alshehri (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia) and Nada Alruwaii (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pipe segment for use in construction of a pipeline comprising a pipe body and a sensing nerve network that is embedded in or coupled to the pipe body and is configured to monitor a condition of the pipe segment in real-time. The sensing nerve network comprises plastic optical fiber (POF) nerves and a nanomaterial coating covering a span of the plastic optical fibe...