ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,613, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Quantitative distance-based light hydrocarbon measurements correlations and graph theory for determining reservoir complexity" was invented by Mustafa Ali H. Al Ibrahim (Safwa, Saudi Arabia), Mariam Assadeq (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Bandar Ismail Ghassal (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for, at least, forming a graph representation of physical samples and identifying clusters of the physical samples. The method includes obtaining a plurality of physical samples from one or more wells, where each sample is associat...