ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,821, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Method and system for determining predicted contract data using machine learning" was invented by Omar A. Al Katheer (Inak, Saudi Arabia) and Shooq S. Al Harbi (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include obtaining historical contract data regarding various contracts for various service operations. The method may further include extracting, from various servers, supply data regarding various material components using a web scraping process. The method may further include identifying a contract among the contracts t...