US Patent Issued to Siemens Energy Global on Feb. 10 for "Method, analysis device and pumping system for detecting an oil leak in a beam pump" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,207, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG (Bayern, Germany).

"Method, analysis device and pumping system for detecting an oil leak in a beam pump" was invented by Jurgen Hatzl (Grafenschachen, Austria), Severin Kuberl (Graz, Austria), Martin Mayer (Vienna) and Stefan Wakolbinger (Graz, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for detecting an oil leak in a beam pump, wherein, during pumping movement of the rod linkage through the wellhead, a stroke region is formed, the method including a) capturing images of an image sequence containing at least the stroke region of the r...