US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Sept. 22 for "Apparatuses, systems, and methods for isolating a nozzle of a vessel" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,294, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Apparatuses, systems, and methods for isolating a nozzle of a vessel" was invented by Sunil Javed Paramban (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Alawi Adnan Alsayegh (Qatif, Saudi Arabia), Abdulaziz A. Al-Megren (Dammam, Saudi Arabia) and Sayee Prasad Raghunathan (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for isolating a nozzle having an outer end extending externally from a vessel and an inner end opening into the interior of the vessel comprises: a rod comprising proximal and distal ends; an umbrella comprising an end member and a c...