US Patent Issued to IMAM MOHAMMAD IBN SAUD ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY on April 15 for "Method for making bismuth oxyhalide quantum dots" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,881, issued on April 15, was assigned to IMAM MOHAMMAD IBN SAUD ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

"Method for making bismuth oxyhalide quantum dots" was invented by Babiker Y. Abdulkhair (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), Faisal K. Algethami (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) and Mohamed R. Elamin (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of producing bismuth oxyhalide quantum dots without heat. The method is a one-pot method that includes synthesizing bismuth oxyhalide quantum dots at room temperature. The method results in quantum dots preferably having bismuth and halide in a molar ratio of 1:1. Further, the bismuth oxyhalide...