US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on March 4 for "Method to prepare virtual assay using gel permeation chromatography" (Saudi Arabia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,241,883, issued on March 4, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Method to prepare virtual assay using gel permeation chromatography" was invented by Omer Refa Koseoglu (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for providing virtual assays of an oil sample such as crude oil based on gel permeation chromatography (GPC) carried out on the oil sample or a solution of the oil sample in a GPC solvent, and the density of the oil sample. The virtual assay provides a full range of information about fractions of the oil sample including naphtha, gas oil, vacuum gas oil, ...