US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Feb. 3 for "Controlling logging tool orientation in a wellbore" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,542, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Controlling logging tool orientation in a wellbore" was invented by Nadir Abdullah Alajmi (Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia), Mustafa Alhuwaider (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Shouxiang Mark Ma (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A downhole orientation tool includes a top sub-assembly configured to couple to a downhole conveyance and run into a wellbore on the downhole conveyance from a terranean surface to one or more subterranean formations; one or more orientation sensors coupled to the top sub-assembly and configured to detect rotational m...