US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on March 25 for "Method and system for automated installation of welded reinforced thermosetting resin pipe joints" (French, Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,075, issued on March 25, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Method and system for automated installation of welded reinforced thermosetting resin pipe joints" was invented by Thibault Villette (Belfort, France), Abderrazak Traidia (Lussan, France) and Abdullah Al Shahrani (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for automatically jointing of reinforced thermosetting resin (RTR) pipes. For example, an automated installation of RTR joints system may have an inductor and a pig for automated in-field installation of RTR pipes. The inductor may be fitted on an outside of RT...