ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,350, issued on April 29, was assigned to IMAM MOHAMMAD IBN SAUD ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

"Method for generating hydrogen using Bi 2 O 3 @SiO 2 nanocomposite catalyst" was invented by Mohamed Nady Abd El-Hameed Ibrahim (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), Mohamed Khairy Omran (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) and Babiker yagoub Elhadi Abdulkhair (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of hydrogen (H2) generation includes hydrolyzing a borohydride salt in an aqueous solution including a catalyst to form gaseous hydrogen. The catalyst is a bismuth(III) oxide-doped silicon dioxide with an amount of bismuth(III) oxide from ...