US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology on Sept. 30 for "Identifying and remediating oil spills" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,580, issued on Sept. 30, 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 tracking and remediating oil in a body of water include monitoring the data from the satellite for indications of an oil spill. In response to determining that...