ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,670, issued on June 24, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Emulated facility safety with embedded enhanced interface management" was invented by Soloman M. Almadi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Fouad Alkhabbaz (Qatif, Saudi Arabia), Bander R. Al-Yousef (Al Mubarraz, Saudi Arabia), Abdullah Fayez Al-Halafi (Dammam, Saudi Arabia) and Yousif Alghamdi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method includes: connecting an infrastructure construction digital integrated twin ICDIT to an interface management system through one or more application program interfaces (APIs) of one or ...