US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on March 17 for "System and method for secure data exchange between operational technology systems and external networks in air-gap architecture environment" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,968, issued on March 17, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"System and method for secure data exchange between operational technology systems and external networks in air-gap architecture environment" was invented by Saad A. Alharbi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Bader W. Alkhaldi (Dammam, Saudi Arabia), Ahmad M. Albarrak (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Hussain A. Alkhaldi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Saleem E. Alharthi (Dammam, Saudi Arabia), Saad G. Alamri (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Mashary F. Alotaibi (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for secure data exchange between an operational tec...