US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Sept. 9 for "Apparatus and method for milling openings in an uncemented blank pipe" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,691, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Apparatus and method for milling openings in an uncemented blank pipe" was invented by Ahmed A. Al Sulaiman (Dammam, Saudi Arabia), Feras Hamid Rowaihy (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Mamdouh N. Al-Nasser (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Suresh Jacob (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to an inflow control system having an apparatus configured to form or plug openings in a blank pipe. The apparatus includes a housing and a milling sub-system. The housing has a cylindrical wall with an outer surface. The milling sub-s...