ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,428, issued on March 25, was assigned to IMAM MOHAMMAD IBN SAUD ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

"Method for making smart optical materials by solution polymerization" was invented by Hajo Idriss Mohammed Idriss (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), Khalid Hassan Ibnouf Ahmed (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), Osamah Abdulrahman Aldaghri (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), Abueliz Khalid Modwi Khalid (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) and Amin Osman Elzupir Alamalhuda (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of making a smart optical material (SOM) including mixing polypropylene in a solvent to form a first solution. The method further includes mixin...