ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,823, issued on March 25, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).
"Drilling fluid temperature optimization" was invented by Rami F. Saleh (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Mahmoud Adnan Alqurashi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drilling fluid temperature optimization system includes a receiving tank and one or more nozzle assemblies. Each nozzle assembly includes a housing enclosing an inner chamber fluidically connected to one or more nozzles. Each of the one or more nozzle assemblies is configured to receive within its respective inner chamber drilling fluid flowing from the wellbore. The sy...