US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on May 20 for "Distributed fiber sensing in a packer for permanent casing and formation deformation monitoring" (Saudi Arabia, American, Mexican Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,501, issued on May 20, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Distributed fiber sensing in a packer for permanent casing and formation deformation monitoring" was invented by Damian San Roman Alerigi (Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia), Jose Oliverio Alvarez (Houston), Adrian Cesar Cavazos Sepulveda (Nuevo Leon, Mexico) and Sameeh Issa Batarseh (Dhahran Hills, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus, method, and system for monitoring wellbore deformation is disclosed. The apparatus includes an expandable annular cylindrical packer and a plurality of assemblies mounted on an exterior circumferential...