US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on Feb. 18 for "Clamp-on pressure and flow metering system" (Saudi Arabia, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,228,396, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Clamp-on pressure and flow metering system" was invented by Sakethraman Mahalingam (Aberdeen, Great Britain) and Muhammad Arsalan (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for applying pressure to a pipe and measuring internal pressure. The apparatus including jacket disposed on the pipe, one or more of a first set of strain gauges disposed on a wall of the pipe, one or more of a second set of strain gauges disposed on the wall of the pipe, and a temperature sensor disposed on the wall of the pipe. The pipe has an inne...