US Patent Issued to IMAM MOHAMMAD IBN SAUD ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY on Nov. 4 for "Nanocomposite for wastewater treatment" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,834, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to IMAM MOHAMMAD IBN SAUD ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

"Nanocomposite for wastewater treatment" was invented by Ehab Abdelhamed Abdelrahman Ahmed (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) and Babiker Yagoub Elhadi Abdulkhair (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of remediating a contaminated aqueous medium includes contacting the aqueous medium with an amount of a particulate nanocomposite material that contains elemental carbon (C); an orthorhombic titanium dioxide (TiO2); a tetragonal TiO2 crystalline phase; a cubic cadmium oxide (CdO) crystalline phase; a hexagonal magnesium ti...