ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,688, issued on June 24, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).
"Intelligent measuring while drilling" was invented by Abdulmalik Abdullah Alghanmi (Al Ghazawat, Saudi Arabia), Abdulaziz S. Al-Qasim (Dammam, Saudi Arabia) and Bodong Li (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wellbore tubular including a pre-installed data transmission cable is disclosed. The tubular includes a hollow cylinder, a stationary ring disposed at the lower end of the cylindrical wall and having a lower end hollow pin protruding downward from the stationary ring, a rotating ring disposed at the upper end of the cyli...