US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on July 14 for "Use of ground protection of energy reducing maintenance switch (ERMS) for protecting controlgears" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,383, issued on July 14, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Use of ground protection of energy reducing maintenance switch (ERMS) for protecting controlgears" was invented by Wasseem Khardawi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Ali Hajri (Abu Ali, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ground protection of an energy reducing maintenance switch (ERMS) system for protecting controlgears. The ground protection of the ERMS system includes a feeder, one or more controlgears operatively connected to the feeder, one or more microprocessor protection relays operatively connected to the one or more circuit break...