US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on Aug. 25 for "Electrical arc-flash protection based on personnel proximity sensing" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,258, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Electrical arc-flash protection based on personnel proximity sensing" was invented by Omar F. Konash (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Bader S. Khaldi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Eyhab Adel Mohammed Wazirali (Dammam, Saudi Arabia) and Majed M. Hamrani (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a plurality of sensors, a processor, and a notification system. The plurality of sensors detects personnel within a proximity from an electrical equipment. The processor obtains data from the electrical equipment and the detection from t...