US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Dec. 2 for "System and method using sliding magnets to control magnetic wheel adhesion" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,699, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"System and method using sliding magnets to control magnetic wheel adhesion" was invented by Abdulwahab Halawani (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia) and Fadl Abdellatif (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method control magnetic adhesion of a wheel to a ferromagnetic surface using sliding magnets, which slide in and out of a disc. Moving the magnets into the apertures generates a magnetic flux, increasing the magnetic adhesion. The system implements the method."

The patent was filed on May 10, 2022, under Application No. 17/662,789....