ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,441, issued on March 25, was assigned to IMAM MOHAMMAD IBN SAUD ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

"Fabrication of a conjugated polymer" was invented by Tarek Ahmed Yousef (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), Saad Shaaban (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), Ahmed Abdel Nazeer Soliman (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) and Mohamed Alaa Mohamed (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of fabricating a conjugated polymer may include alkylating a carbazole with an alkyl bromide, in a solvent mixture, to form an alkyl carbazole; brominating the alkyl carbazole to form an N-alkyldibromocarbazole; and reacting the N-alkyldibromocarbazole with a di...