US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Aug. 26 for "System and method using internal cancellation magnets to control magnetic wheel adhesion" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,582, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"System and method using internal cancellation magnets to control magnetic wheel adhesion" was invented by Fadl Abdellatif (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia), Ahmed Al Brahim (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia) and Hesham Jifri (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 cancellation magnets. An inner annular disc of the wheel comprises a non-magnetic material and has first and second apertures which retain magnets while an outer annular disc comprises a ferromagnetic material and...