ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,357, issued on June 23, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).
"Digital portable magentic particle tester" was invented by Abdullah A. Alqahtani (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Subindas Melapurakkal Mohandas (Dammam, Saudi Arabia) and Saeed A. Salah (As Saffaniyah, Saudi Arabia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A digital portable magnetic particle tester (MPT) for performing magnetic particle inspection includes a yoke body providing a handle, a pair of poles extending from the yoke body and operable to induce a magnetic field for magnetizing a test object, a camera mounted to the yoke body between the pair of poles...