US Patent Issued to IMAM MOHAMMAD IBN SAUD ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY on Dec. 30 for "Method of producing hydrogen gas from sodium borohydride" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,348, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to IMAM MOHAMMAD IBN SAUD ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

"Method of producing hydrogen gas from sodium borohydride" was invented by Mohamed Nady Abd El-Hameed Ibrahim (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), Laila Saad Saeed Alqarni (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), Maha Daifullah Mohammed Alghamdi (Al Bahah, Saudi Arabia) and Reem Daifullah Mohammed Alghamdi (Al Bahah, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of producing hydrogen gas comprising: hydrolyzing sodium borohydride (NaBH4) with water at a temperature of from 20 to 75deg C. in the presence of a nanocomposite catalyst. The method is charac...