US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on July 8 for "Electromagnets to control magnetic wheel adhesion" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,962, issued on July 8, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Electromagnets to control magnetic wheel adhesion" was invented by Fadl Abdellatif (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia), Amjad Felemban (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia), Ali J. Alrasheed (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia) and Hesham Jifri (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An arrangement of cancellation electromagnets control magnetic adhesion of a wheel to a surface. The wheel has an inner annular disc composed of a non-magnetic material with apertures which retain electromagnets and permanent magnets, and an outer annular disc composed of a ferromagnetic material w...