ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,958, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to IMAM MOHAMMAD IBN SAUD ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

"Multicomponent nanocomposite material" was invented by Ehab Abdelhamed Abdelrahman Ahmed (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), Mortaga Mohamed Mostafa Abou-Krisha (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) and Abdulrahman Ghonaim Awad Alhamzani (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A particulate Ca2PbO4/PbO/Co3O4/C nanocomposite material comprising, as determined by X-ray diffraction (XRD): elemental carbon (C); an orthorhombic lead oxide (PbO) crystalline phase; an orthorhombic calcium lead oxide (Ca2PbO4) crystalline phase; and, a cubic cobalt o...