US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Jan. 20 for "Built-in system for inspection, testing and sampling of casted or additive manufactured material" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,662, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Built-in system for inspection, testing and sampling of casted or additive manufactured material" was invented by Zakariya Saleh Al-Helal (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Carlos Ernesto Acero (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Nagi Elbashir (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for condition assessment of a formed material include a testing tube in contact with the formed material. An access tube is in contact with the formed material and with a testing end open to the testing tube. A tube cap is located at a cap end of the ac...