ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,295, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to IMAM MOHAMMAD IBN SAUD ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

"Fabrication of SiO 2 /Mn 7 O 12 Si/Pb 2 SiO 4 nanocomposites using sol-gel method" was invented by Ehab Abdelhamed Abdelrahman Ahmed (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A porous particulate nanocomposite material containing, as determined by X-ray diffraction: a Pb2SiO4 crystalline phase; a tetragonal Mn7O12Si crystalline phase; a hexagonal SiO2 crystalline phase; and, an orthorhombic SiO2 crystalline phase. The porous particulate nanocomposite material, based on the total number of atoms in the nanocomposite m...