ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,574, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Method for waste management utilizing artifical neural network system" was invented by Sadiq Sait (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Farouq Muhammad Aliyu (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Shuaibu Bukar (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Bashir Saleh Maina (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Dahiru Umar Lawal (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A waste management method includes setting an allowable methane amount in a bin and an allowable waste amount in the bin. The method includes measuring a methane amount in the bin, a waste amount in t...