ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,511, issued on March 18, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).
"System and method for testing cement" was invented by Simone Musso (Houston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of measuring cement volumetric changes includes loading a sample cement into a flexible container and surrounding the flexible container by a column of fluid in a chamber. The temperature of the column of fluid is adjusted to a cement setting temperature, and the sample cement is allowed to set over several hours. The pressure of the column of fluid is adjusted to a test pressure. The temperature of the column of fluid in the c...