US Patent Issued to Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University on Dec. 9 for "Photocatalyst for the degradation of methyl orange dye" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,499, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

"Photocatalyst for the degradation of methyl orange dye" was invented by Essia Hannachi (Dammam, Saudi Arabia), Yassine Slimani (Dammam, Saudi Arabia), Muhammad Nawaz (Dammam, Saudi Arabia), Munirah A. Almessiere (Dammam, Saudi Arabia) and Abdulhadi Baykal (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of degrading a dye in an aqueous solution including contacting nanoparticles with the dye in the aqueous solution and irradiating the aqueous solution. The nanoparticles have a formula of Zn1-2xCexYbxO, x=0.01-0.1, and wh...