US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Jan. 27 for "Measuring wellbore fluid characteristics in a wellbore" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,988, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Measuring wellbore fluid characteristics in a wellbore" was invented by Christopher Wrighton (Inverurie, Great Britain) and Sakethraman Mahalingam (Aberdeen, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A downhole pumping system includes a downhole pump configured to couple to a downhole conveyance that is run into a wellbore from a terranean surface to one or more subterranean formations; a motor module driveably coupled to the downhole pump and configured to operate the pump upon receipt of primary electrical power from the terranean surface to ...