US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on July 8 for "Underground cuboid sulfur storage systems" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,002, issued on July 8, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Underground cuboid sulfur storage systems" was invented by Bryan Hall-Thompson (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Humaid Ahmed Alhuthali (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An underground storage unit for storing bulk sulfur includes a base layer comprising leachate collection pipes arranged to form a grid of cells, and high strength sulfur positioned at each cell, an intermediate layer comprising high strength sulfur side walls extending from a perimeter of the base layer, and bulk sulfur positioned on top of the base layer, a top la...