ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,516, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Apparatus for forming and testing inorganic salts" was invented by Hamad Al Saiari (Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia), Christian Canto Maya (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Hassan Alshahdood (Jubail, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for testing salt formation includes heating, by a first heater of an apparatus, an anion solution arranged in a first vessel of the apparatus to a first predetermined temperature and heating, by a second heater of the apparatus, a cation solution arranged in a second vessel of the apparatus to a second predeter...