US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on June 24 for "Powder weld fishing tool" (Saudi Arabia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,700, issued on June 24, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Powder weld fishing tool" was invented by Sameeh Issa Batarseh (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A downhole fishing tool for retrieving an object from a wellbore includes a main body assembly, one or more nozzles configured to dispose a cladding powder on the object when the object is proximate to the tool, and one or more lenses configured to direct a laser beam at the cladding powder disposed on the object, thereby welding the fishing tool to the object such that pulling the tool in an uphole direction pulls the object along ...