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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,294, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"System and method using a magnetic cancellation loop 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 use a magnetic cancellation loop to control magnetic wheel adhesion. The wheel has an inner annular disc composed of a non-magnetic material with apertures to retain ferromagnetic structures and magnets, and an outer annular discs composed of a ferromagnetic material and are disposed on either side of the inner annul...