US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on July 15 for "Real-time multimodal radiometry for subsurface characterization during high-power laser operations" (Saudi Arabia, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,554, issued on July 15, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Real-time multimodal radiometry for subsurface characterization during high-power laser operations" was invented by Damian Pablo San Roman Alerigi (Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia), Weichang Li (Katy, Texas) and Sameeh Issa Batarseh (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some implementations of the present disclosure provide a method that includes: irradiating a target surface with a process beam during a drilling process; in response to irradiating with the process beam, receiving a signal beam that contains light scattered from the target...