ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,943, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Air polutants exceedence monitoring and alerting system which integrates pollutant and geolocation data" was invented by Faisal Yousef Alhammad (Dammam, Saudi Arabia), Mostafa Abdel-Aziz Abou-Ghanem (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Hussain M. Alnasser (Safwa, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a system for tracking a concentration of pollution elements in air are disclosed. The system includes a plurality of air pollutant monitoring stations configured to obtain data from a plurality of air samples and an information logger that...