US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Nov. 4 for "System and method for actuation to control magnetic wheel adhesion" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,293, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"System and method for actuation to control magnetic wheel adhesion" was invented by Fadl Abdellatif (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia), Hesham Jifri (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia), Abdulwahab Halawani (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia), Ahmed Al Brahim (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia) and Ali J. Alrasheed (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An actuation system and method are actuated to control magnetic adhesion of a wheel to a surface. The actuation system is coupled to the wheel having inner and outer annular discs and the wheel is configured to adhere magnetically to a s...