ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,715, issued on June 24, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).
"Cleaning and inspecting a wellbore" was invented by Malki Bandar (Dammam, Saudi Arabia), Humood Malik (Saihat, Saudi Arabia) and Miguel Augusto Avila Romero (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for cleaning and inspecting a wellbore. A wellbore cleaning tool has a jetting sub-assembly, a reverse circulation sub-assembly, and a guide shoe sub-assembly with a camera. The jetting sub-assembly has jetting nozzles oriented to direct a fluid at the wellbore. The reverse circulation sub-assembly has a barrel defining ...