US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on May 13 for "Downhole perforating tool systems and methods" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,720, issued on May 13, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Downhole perforating tool systems and methods" was invented by Ahmed Al-Mousa (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Malik M. Humood (Saihat, Saudi Arabia) and Omar M. Alhamid (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A downhole perforation tool includes an upper sub-assembly configured to couple to a downhole conveyance within a wellbore that is formed from a terranean surface toward a subterranean formation; and a plurality of perforation sub-assemblies. Each perforation sub-assembly includes one or more perforation guns, and one or more ports confi...