US Patent Issued to IMAM MOHAMMAD IBN SAUD ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY on May 27 for "Nanocomposite for purification of contaminated water" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,336, issued on May 27, was assigned to IMAM MOHAMMAD IBN SAUD ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

"Nanocomposite for purification of contaminated water" was invented by Babiker Yagoub Elhadi Abdulkhair (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) and Mohamed Khairy Abdel Fattah Omran (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of adsorption includes contacting a nanocomposite with a solution including one or more pollutants. The nanocomposite is a graphite-phase carbon nitride copper oxide and magnesium aluminum oxide (g-C3N4@CuO/MgAl2O4) material and includes a graphite-phase carbon nitride (g-C3N4) in an amount of 5 to 15 percen...