Ministry of Finance and Industry gives a UAE National patent license for his invention

One of the patents went to a UAE national Moosa Easa Al Amri for inventing a boarding pass with encoded data and systems for issuing and processing it.

Mr. Rashid Abdullah Al Mala, Head of Industrial Property Department, said: "We gave patent licenses to these inventions in light of the regulations passed on by specialized organizations like the World Intellectual Property Organization, the World Trade Organization, and the Austrian Patent Office. The patents issued include a coupling for outer surface engagement of polymeric pipe, a guide pole fitting seal for floating roof storage tanks, Composite Material resistant to armor piercing bullets, and a process for the production of highly pure melamine.

Al Amri's invention consists of a boarding pass and system for use in boarding passengers in aircraft or other means of transportation. The boarding pass has a main coupon part and a passenger coupon part detachable from the main coupon part. The front face of the main coupon and passenger coupon parts carry visible printed data associated with spaces were passenger data and travel data are printed.

The new boarding pass and system simplify and speed up passenger boarding and can be used for a wide range of applications including electronic clearance in case of change of airline, security check, activities during transit. They also include access to transit areas, point-of-sales transactions including duty-free shopping on ground or aboard, counting and checking the number of boarding passengers, automatic production arrival cards or exit cards, luggage identification, collection and retrieval.

The second invention is of the coupling for outer surface engagement of polymeric pipe. The third invention is of a guide pole fitting seal for use on floating roof tanks that incorporates several materials and may permit the product level in the tank to be measured and sampled from inside of the guide pole by removing the float during these operations.

A composite material that is resistant to armor piercing bullets consisting of a highly elastic polyurethane matrix and a process for the production of highly pure melamine were also rewarded.