US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on June 17 for "Unmanned aerial system for autonomous gas leakage detection, quantification, and mitigation" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,921, issued on June 17, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Unmanned aerial system for autonomous gas leakage detection, quantification, and mitigation" was invented by Yasser A. Alshaalan (Dammam, Saudi Arabia), Omar A. Dubayan (Dammam, Saudi Arabia), Abdulrahman H. Alswaidan (Dammam, Saudi Arabia), Prem Kumar (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Aidhah J. Zahrani (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for locating and mitigating a gas leak includes receiving gas leak sensory data from one or more gas leak detection sensors disposed on a gas-handling system and further receiving environm...