ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,722, issued on May 13, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).
"Total crude oil demand control from multiple oil stabilizer columns" was invented by Rana Khurram Shahzad (Abqaiq, Saudi Arabia), Ali A. Alwadi (Dammam, Saudi Arabia) and Mohammed Al-Saeed (Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods include a computer-implemented method for managing crude oil demand at a crude oil processing plant. Real-time process data is received for the plant and includes quantitative values for conditions and operations at the plant. A multiple stabilizer oil flow control strategy is determined ...