US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on Nov. 11 for "Computed radiography imaging plate with imbedded NFC tag" (Saudi Arabia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,049, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Computed radiography imaging plate with imbedded NFC tag" was invented by Hasan Alshukr (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed. The methods include imbedding a Near Field Communication (NFC) tag in an imaging plate (IP), equipping a scanner with an NFC reader, scanning the IP with the NFC reader, updating information on the NFC tag with the NFC reader, and determining if a lifecycle threshold of the IP has been exceeded. The methods further include retiring the IP from when the lifecycle threshol...