US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on March 11 for "Electrical submersible pump for a wellbore" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,469, issued on March 11, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Electrical submersible pump for a wellbore" was invented by Mostafa M. Bori (Qatif, Saudi Arabia), Hashim A. Alsadah (Safwa, Saudi Arabia), Matias S. Funes (Ras Tanura, Saudi Arabia) and Ahmed A. Khalaf (Safwa, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A downhole pumping system includes an electric motor configured to receive electric power from a cable coupled to a power source at a terranean surface; and a submersible pump coupled to the electric motor and positionable within a wellbore formed from the terranean surface toward a subterranean...