US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Nov. 18 for "System and method using internal short-circuit conductors to control magnetic wheel adhesion" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,769, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"System and method using internal short-circuit conductors to control magnetic wheel adhesion" was invented by Fadl Abdellatif (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia) and Ahmed Al Brahim (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 surface using internal short-circuit conductors. The method includes providing the wheel having a first disc, apertures retaining magnets, and a conducting ring, and a second disc. In a first configuration, the second disc is isolated from the conducting ring to genera...