ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,611, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Autonomous system to protect individuals operating electrical systems based on artificial intelligence" was invented by Ibraheem Ahmed Al-Sheikh (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Faris Faraj Al-Marri (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of protecting individuals working at an electrical circuit includes: acquiring image data about an area of risk with an image acquisition device; identifying a human who is in or is about to enter the area of risk based on the image data; determining whether each identified human is wearing per...