ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,554, issued on June 24, was assigned to SABIC GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES B.V. (Bergen Op Zoom, Netherlands).

"Fiber reinforced elongate profiled object" was invented by Curtis Collar (Houston), Talal Mansour Al-Safi (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), Abdul Rahim Ahamed Arafath (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) and John Gillespie McCann (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Elongate profiled object having a cross section, the object comprising a peripheral wall, forming a hollow profile extending in a longitudinal direction, wherein at least part of the peripheral wall is provided with a reinforcement element, and wherein the elongate profiled object is made of...