US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Feb. 18 for "Methods and systems for predicting dissolved oxygen in seawater using a neural network" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,228,560, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Methods and systems for predicting dissolved oxygen in seawater using a neural network" was invented by Prafulchandra Bhavanbhai Sonara (Abqaiq, Saudi Arabia) and Abdulrahman S. Johar (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for predicting a dissolved oxygen level in treated seawater includes directing raw seawater from a fluid channel into a deaerator, directing an inert gas and an oxygen scavenger solution into the deaerator, thereby removing dissolved oxygen from the raw seawater such that the treated seawater exits the dea...