ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,842, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Method and system for managing plant safety using machine learning" was invented by Hisham Alsumail (Hofuf, Saudi Arabia) and Bashar Y. Melhem (Abqaiq, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include determining classified safety data regarding a plant area using the unstructured data and a first machine-learning model that uses natural language processing. The method may further include determining a plant hazard for the plant area using a second machine-learning model, the classified safety data, and the structured safety ...