US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Jan. 28 for "Smart occupant emergency locator and headcounter" (Saudi Arabia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,273, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Smart occupant emergency locator and headcounter" was invented by Meshaal Mohammed Alshammary (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and systems for evacuating a building during an incident are provided. An exemplary method includes tracking location of personnel in the building, monitoring incident sensors, detecting an incident based, at least in part, on the incident sensors, activating alert systems, locating unevacuated personnel in the building, and displaying the location of the unevacuated personnel on a fire alarm ...