US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Feb. 3 for "System for measuring flow within a pipeline" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,839, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"System for measuring flow within a pipeline" was invented by Shadi Mohammed Al-Hazmi (Hafouf, Saudi Arabia), Mohannad Al-Shahrani (Halouf, Saudi Arabia), Ahmad Al-Ahdal (Hafouf, Saudi Arabia) and Hadi Al-Shehri (Hafouf, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a pipeline and a valve mechanism defining an adjustable orifice. An actuator is coupled to the valve mechanism and operable adjust a size of the adjustable orifice. An upstream pressure sensor senses pressure of the fluid and an adjustment controller is communicatively cou...