US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on March 18 for "Systems and methods for positive displacement motor diagnostics and failure prediction" (Saudi Arabia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,976, issued on March 18, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Systems and methods for positive displacement motor diagnostics and failure prediction" was invented by Abdullah Mohammed Al-Dossary (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems relating to a drilling operation at a well site include a plurality of drilling parameters, which define the processes of the drilling operation, and a positive displacement motor. The positive displacement motor includes a plurality of embedded sensors, wherein each embedded sensor has an embedded sensor type and an embedded sensor locat...