ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,379, issued on April 15, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).
"Hot oil media for sulfur export line and sulfur storage tank" was invented by Abdullah Almousa (Dammam, Saudi Arabia), Hussain Almomen (Udhailiyah, Saudi Arabia), Abdulrahman Al-Methn (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) and Mishar K. Paul (Calgary, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for heating one or more sulfur transport and storage systems including a hot oil distribution system, a first transport line fluidly connecting one or more reboilers to an inlet on a heating jacket on a sulfur transport system, a second transport line fluidly connec...