US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on Oct. 28 for "Scraper receiver with filter upstream of a kicker valve" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,037, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Scraper receiver with filter upstream of a kicker valve" was invented by Javaid S. Muhammad (Shaybah, Saudi Arabia) and Yazeed Alsubhi (Shaybah, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A scraper receiver system includes a mainstream line of a pipeline for transporting a working fluid therethrough. A bypass line includes an inlet and an outlet fluidly coupled to mainstream line and a scraper (PIG) receiver is coupled within the bypass line to receive a scraper therein. At least one kicker valve is coupled within the bypass line downstream o...