US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL, KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM & MINERALS on Sept. 9 for "Advanced drone port station for enhanced maintenance, monitoring, and surveillance operations" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,958, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM & MINERALS (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Advanced drone port station for enhanced maintenance, monitoring, and surveillance operations" was invented by Abdulmalik Abdullah Alghanmi (Al Ghazawat, Saudi Arabia) and Abdulaziz S. Al-Qasim (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drone system includes a headquarter station and one or more drone port stations. Each drone port station includes a platform configured to receive a drone, a radar system configured to detect and identify the drone, and one or...