US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on July 15 for "Automated industrial firefighting blanket platform system" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,857, issued on July 15, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Automated industrial firefighting blanket platform system" was invented by Abdulwahab Halawani (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia), Ahmed Al Brahim (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia), Hassane Trigui (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia) and Abdulrahman Althobaiti (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fire blanket deployment system includes a fire blanket assembly including a foldable fire blanket that is detachably coupled to a carrier. The foldable fire blanket is initially in a folded state. The system can include a frame having a plurality of vertical supports that a...