US Patent Issued to IMAM MOHAMMAD IBN SAUD ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY on June 17 for "Method for purifying polluted water" (Saudi Arabia, Egyptian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,962, issued on June 17, was assigned to IMAM MOHAMMAD IBN SAUD ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

"Method for purifying polluted water" was invented by Mohamed Khairy Abdel Fattah Omran (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), Mohamed Mokhtar Mohamed (Benha, Egypt), Salah Ahmed Ibrahim Eid (Sakaka, 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 water decontamination includes contacting sulfur-doped silver tungstate (Ag2WO4) nanoparticles with an aqueous solution to form a mixture. The aqueous solution includes one or more pollutants. The method further includes mixing the mi...