ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,364, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to IMAM MOHAMMAD IBN SAUD ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

"Nanocomposite for hydrogen generation" was invented by Babiker Yagoub Elhadi Abdulkhair (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), Mohamed Nady Abd El-Hameed Ibrahim (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) and Mohamed Khairy Omran (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of hydrogen generation includes contacting sodium borohydride (NaBH4) and a nanocomposite containing graphitic C3N4, Fe2O3, and MgAl2O4 in a mass relationship to each other in a range of from 5 to 15: 2 to 7: 75 to 95, at a temperature in a range of from 10 to 80deg C., thereb...