US Patent Issued to IMAM MOHAMMAD IBN SAUD ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY on May 27 for "Acrylate/chalcone polystyrene composite and uses thereof" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,456, issued on May 27, was assigned to IMAM MOHAMMAD IBN SAUD ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

"Acrylate/chalcone polystyrene composite and uses thereof" was invented by Khalid Hassan Ibnouf Ahmed (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), Hajo Idriss Mohammed Idriss (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), Osamah Abdulrahman Aldaghri (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) and Amin Osman Elzupir Alamalhuda (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A polystyrene-based chalcone including units of a 1-(2H-1,3-benzodioxol-5-yl)-3-[4-(dimethylamino)phenyl]-(2E)-propane-1-one and units of a 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate. The units of the 1-(2H-1,3-benzodioxol-5-yl)-3-[4-(...