US Patent Issued to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS on Sept. 16 for "Method and system for crowd management in religious sites" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,639, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Method and system for crowd management in religious sites" was invented by Mohamed Mohandes (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Ali Al-Shaikhi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Bo Liu (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Shafiqur Rehman (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a system for performing crowd management in a religious site includes receiving registration information from a plurality of pilgrims, including mobile numbers for receiving text messages. The method includes periodically capturing, by a plurality of ...