US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on Sept. 23 for "Non-intrusive inspection methodology of landing base and surface pipe" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,840, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Non-intrusive inspection methodology of landing base and surface pipe" was invented by Sanjiv Kumar (Udhailiyah, Saudi Arabia) and Muhammad Imran Javed (Abqaiq, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes an equipment platform, an electro-magnetic defectoscopy tool, a signal emitter, a signal receiver, and a computer processor. The equipment platform is formed in a ring-like shape having an orifice of a size large enough to fit a circumference of the wellhead or the casing string within the orifice. The electro-magnetic def...