US Patent Issued to IMAM MOHAMMAD IBN SAUD ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY on June 17 for "Natural food preservative" (Saudi Arabia, Egyptian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,171, issued on June 17, was assigned to IMAM MOHAMMAD IBN SAUD ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

"Natural food preservative" was invented by Ahmed Aly Ahmed Allam (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), Hassan Ahmed Rudayni (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), Rehab Khaled Mahmoud (Beni-Suef, Egypt), Nabil Sayed Hafez (Faiyum, Egypt), Naif Ghazi Altoom (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), Khalil Ibrahim Khalil (Faiyum, Egypt), Samah Ahmed Abd-El Twab Awad (Faiyum, Egypt) and Amany Ahmed Abd-El Halim Mohamed (Faiyum, Egypt).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A food preservative having antimicrobial and antioxidant activity and a method of fabrication. The food preservativ...