ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,157, issued on May 12, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Multi-site optimization of energy systems" was invented by Mana M. Alowaidh (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Abdulrahman M. Hazazi (Dammam, Saudi Arabia) and Solomon C. Oji (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes methods and systems for optimizing operation of industrial steam and power utility systems across multiple facilities. A method involves: for each energy system at each facility: (a) performing equipment level data validation for the plurality of respective power generation equipment, (b) performing equipment...