ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,979, issued on July 15, was assigned to IMAM MOHAMMAD IBN SAUD ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

"PbTiO 3 /TiO 2 /Zn 2 Ti 3 O 8 nanocomposite material and method of preparation thereof" was invented by Ehab Abdelhamed Abdelrahman Ahmed (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A porous particulate nanocomposite material containing, as determined by X-ray diffraction: a cubic Zn2Ti3O8 crystalline phase; a tetragonal PbTiO3 crystalline phase; and, an orthorhombic TiO2 crystalline phase. In the porous particulate nanocomposite material, based on the total number of atoms in the nanocomposite material: the atomic conc...