US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology on Aug. 5 for "Identifying and remediating oil spills" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,670, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia).

"Identifying and remediating oil spills" was invented by Khaled M. Asfahani (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Ali M. Qasem (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Alaa A. Elyas (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Ibrahim Hoteit (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia) and Sabique Langodan (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for quantifying and remediating an oil spill in a body of water can include obtaining a synthetic aperture radar image of the body of water and/or a multispectral imag...