ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,459, issued on May 13, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Flow-after-flow tests in hydrocarbon wells" was invented by Somiari Bestman (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Rasheed M. Almahdi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Farrukh Moid (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Mutlaq A. Subaie (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Assem A. Alyomny (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Mohannad S. Alharbi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Maryam A. Alblushi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods, systems, and computer-readable medium to perform operations including: receiving historical production data associated with a hydrocarbon well;...