US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on March 25 for "Continuous magnetic positive displacement pump" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,954, issued on March 25, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Continuous magnetic positive displacement pump" was invented by Rafael Adolfo Lastra Melo (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Faris Hasan Tulbah (Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A downhole magnetic pump system includes a tube positioned within a wellbore at least partially filled with a fluid. A conductive wire coil is helically wrapped around the tube and is configured to generate a magnetic field in response to an electrical current passing through the coil. A standing valve assembly including a one-way valve and a travelling va...