US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on July 8 for "Method for downhole reservoir sampling inlet selection" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,164, issued on July 8, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Method for downhole reservoir sampling inlet selection" was invented by Lool Abdulaziz Al-Mustafa (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Mohammed Fuad Al-Zayer (Al Qatif, Saudi Arabia) and Faisal Naif Al-Enezi (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides method for managing a set of downhole sampling tools each comprising a respective inlet probe, the method comprising: accessing a database hosting records of operating the set of downhole sampling tools when sampling reservoir formations; identifying a parameter that charac...