US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Nov. 18 for "Controller for coordinating emergency alert broadcasts at industrial facilities" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,314, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Controller for coordinating emergency alert broadcasts at industrial facilities" was invented by Rami A. Al-Ghanim (Tanajib, Saudi Arabia), Seetah A. Al-Otaibi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Abdullah A. Al-Buainain (Tanajib, Saudi Arabia) and Abdullah Y. Al-Hassan (Tanajib, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for automatically broadcasting a real-time emergency signal to multiple networked devices at an industrial facility include detecting activation of an emergency alert siren, and identifying networked devices specified to...