US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Oct. 7 for "Structural health monitoring of composite structures" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,767, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Structural health monitoring of composite structures" was invented by Layan Alaeddin AlSharif (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Hasan Ali Al-Hashmy (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example devices, systems, and methods for structural health monitoring of composite structures are disclosed. One example method includes attaching a device to an object by fitting the device around the object, where the device includes an enhanced magnetorheological elastomer (MRE) and an elastomer, the enhanced MRE has a folded pattern, the enhanced MRE i...