ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,952, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Marine vessel navigation and shipment tracking using mobile device" was invented by Ali O. Yahia (Dammam, Saudi Arabia), Mohammed AlQahtani (Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia), Ahmed A. AlSaghah (Dammam, Saudi Arabia) and Abdulrahman AlSalim (Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described is a method for marine vessel shipment management. A loading plan with supplies to be shipped on a marine vessel is presented to a user interface of a mobile communication device in communication with other mobile communication devices. Using the user i...