US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on July 15 for "Traceable and disintegrable artificial intelligence powered sensing system and method for the detection of defects in pipelines" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,562, issued on July 15, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Traceable and disintegrable artificial intelligence powered sensing system and method for the detection of defects in pipelines" was invented by Ahmed Aljarro (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia), Nada Ibrahim Alruwaii (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia), Mohmmed T. Abdulmohsin (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Abdulaziz M. Almosa (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Khalid Ghamdi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Salah A. Zahrani (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a buoyant housing; a sensor arrangement housed within the buoyant housing, the sensor arrangemen...