US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on March 24 for "Wheels with controllable suction devices for adhesion on surfaces" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,251, issued on March 24, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Wheels with controllable suction devices for adhesion on surfaces" was invented by Abdulwahab Halawani (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia), Sahejad Patel (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia), Fadl Abdellatif (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia) and Mohammed H. Alsheikh (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Wheels have controllable suction devices for adhesion on surfaces. The wheel has an axle and an outer circumferential surface. The outer circumferential surface has a plurality of apertures and a plurality of stretchable materials. Each aperture has a respective stretc...