ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,479, issued on May 27, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).
"Weld root gap management apparatus" was invented by Abdullah Bahlas (Khobar, Saudi Arabia), Dakhel Al-Dakhil (Dammam, Saudi Arabia), Joao Tavares (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Khaled Faleh AlFaleh (Dammam, Saudi Arabia), Nader Marzuq Alanazi (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) and Fahad Abdullah Al Harthi (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A weld root gap management apparatus includes three or more spacers with a predetermined dimension; a cam; a shaft that is connected to and supports the cam; and a body of the apparatus. The spacers are movab...