US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on Dec. 16 for "Secure real-time updates for isolated security systems" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,939, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Secure real-time updates for isolated security systems" was invented by Nasser S. Alharthi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Monther I. Busbait (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems provide secure, real-time software updates over a public network to an isolated security system. A method includes the steps of setting up a network address translation (NAT) data structure for allowing outbound connections only through a first firewall between the isolated security system and the public network, and configuring the iso...