2026-10-08 Google Patents

Priority 1 and 3. Queries via the patents.google.com search page (xhr query in Chrome): inventor=Vanderelli; inventor=Ken Wheeler, q=magnet; q=(ferrofluid "Hele-Shaw" magnetic field viewer), before 2014.

Found

• Vanderelli (9 results) [web: https://patents.google.com/?inventor=Vanderelli]: US20070241745A1 "Magnetic flux viewer" (priority 2006-04-13); motors and generators US8138696B2, US9190949B1, US20140125154A1, US20140265652A1, WO2014142999A1; US7643312B2 wireless power supply (2003); US10731627B1; US20230369996A1 implantable power generator (2022).
• inventor=Ken Wheeler + magnet: one hit, US6850592B2 "Methods for identification and verification using digital equivalent data" (2002). No evidence this is the same Ken Wheeler; treated as unrelated.
• No patent by Ken L. Wheeler on magnetism was found. Negative for the inventor's own patents (queries above).
• Ferrofluid viewer query: three unrelated hits.

Bearing

Claim 6: the Ferrocell has a 2006 patent application by Vanderelli. Wheeler holds no patents on his "vortex technology" claims (not found).