US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on April 29 for "Spectacle blind swinging devices and related methods" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,040, issued on April 29, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Spectacle blind swinging devices and related methods" was invented by Ali A. Aliwi (Yarmouk, Saudi Arabia), Ridha A. Alhassan (Yarmouk, Saudi Arabia), Shadi M. Hazmi (Al-Ahsa-Salmaniyah, Saudi Arabia) and Mohammad H. Abutalib (Abqaiq, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A swinging device and related methods; the swinging device includes a first housing mountable to a first pipe on a first side of a pipe flange joint, a second housing mountable to a second pipe on a second side of a pipe flange joint, a shaft rotatably mounted to and ex...