US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on July 8 for "Method to prepare virtual assay using nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy" (Saudi Arabia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,712, issued on July 8, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Method to prepare virtual assay using nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy" was invented by Omer Refa Koseoglu (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for providing virtual assays of an oil sample such as crude oil based on nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy carried out on the oil sample, and the density of the oil sample. The virtual assay provides a full range of information about fractions of the oil sample including naphtha, gas oil, vacuum gas oil, vacuum residue, and other informati...