US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on Aug. 26 for "Methods and systems of failure protection for automated valves" (Saudi Arabia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,740, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Methods and systems of failure protection for automated valves" was invented by Mesfoh Awadh Hammed Alyami (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes detecting, by a control system, a feedback signal that indicates whether a network valve is open or closed/closing. Upon detecting the network valve is closed/closing, the method may include determining, by the control system, whether a closing command was issued, initiating a secondary valve system based on the determination of whether the closing command was issued. ...