US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Feb. 4 for "Motor lifting devices and methods for operating the same" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,215,008, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Motor lifting devices and methods for operating the same" was invented by Nishan Xavier Chammany Thomas (Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia), Abdulmunem H. Taisan (Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia) and Abdullah G. Alotaibi (Riyadh Province, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for removing a fin fan motor from a heat exchanger includes positioning a motor lifting device beneath the fin fan motor, moving a carriage of the motor lifting device upward in a vertical direction with respect to a base member of the motor lifting device along a ve...