US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on May 27 for "Smart metal-loss monitoring for coil tubing" (Saudi Arabia, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,600, issued on May 27, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Smart metal-loss monitoring for coil tubing" was invented by Sanjiv Kumar (Dhanbad, India), Abdullah K. Alghannam (Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia) and Keshabananda Baruah (Abqaiq, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for monitoring tubing during feeding into a conduit includes a collar, a plurality of sensors, and a computer system. The collar is positioned around the tubing. The sensors include ultrasonic transducers and fingers oriented radially inward from the collar. The computer system is configured to measure the outer dimensions a...