US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on July 22 for "Dynamically magnetized chassis for crawling robotic vehicles" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,405, issued on July 22, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Dynamically magnetized chassis for crawling robotic vehicles" was invented by Mohammed H. Alsheikh (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia), Abdulwahab Halawani (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia) and Sahejad Patel (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for dynamically magnetizing a chassis of a robotic vehicle are provided. The system can include a chassis having a fixed first section with a first magnet, and a moveable a second section having a second magnet with an opposition orientation relative to the first magnet. The second section is lo...