US Patent Issued to IMAM MOHAMMAD IBN SAUD ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY on July 8 for "Method of heavy metal ion detection using chemosensors" (Saudi Arabia, Egyptian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,739, issued on July 8, was assigned to IMAM MOHAMMAD IBN SAUD ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

"Method of heavy metal ion detection using chemosensors" was invented by Hani Nasser Abdelhamid (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), Faisal Khuwayshan L Algethami (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) and Hussein El-Kashef (Assiut, Egypt).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of detecting a heavy metal ion in an aqueous sample includes contacting a potassium salt of 5-(3,4,5-trimethoxybenzylidene) thiazolidine-2,4-dione (C13H12KNO5S) with the aqueous sample to form a heavy metal complex. The method further includes measuring the fluorescence emission of the ...