US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on Nov. 18 for "Method and system for defect sensing within a fusion weld" (Saudi Arabia, Egyptian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,303, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Method and system for defect sensing within a fusion weld" was invented by Hani Ragb Abdulhadi Akl (Dikirnis, Egypt), Jadaan Matar Al Anezi (Dammam, Saudi Arabia) and Abdullah Mohammed Saleh Al Khalifah (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for detecting, in an examination, at least one defect in a target area of an article using a controller with a processor, an oscillator, a display, and an amplifier. The controller generates sonic pulses and receives pulse reflections. The system includes a sonic probe with an array ...