US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on April 15 for "Extending network connectivity from core network to remote mobile networks using wireless broadband" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,117, issued on April 15, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Extending network connectivity from core network to remote mobile networks using wireless broadband" was invented by Salah M. S. Al Buraiky (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Abdullah M. Alsaadan (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for extending connectivity from a core network to remote mobile networks includes: installing a security gateway between the core network and wireless broadband base stations located at a periphery of the core network; creating a virtual layer 2 (data link) overlay network interconnecting the broadban...