ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,162, issued on July 1, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).
"Identifying and remediating oil spills" was invented by Khaled M. Asfahani (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Ali M. Qasem (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Alaa A. Elyas (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Ibrahim Hoteit (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia) and Sabique Langodan (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for identifying an oil spill in a body of water include obtaining an image of the body of water from a multispectral satellite for a first time period and a second time period. One or more features are extracted the from the image to form a firs...