US Patent Issued to IMAM MOHAMMAD IBN SAUD ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY on Oct. 21 for "Method of producing hydrogen gas using nanocomposite catalyst" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,287, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to IMAM MOHAMMAD IBN SAUD ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

"Method of producing hydrogen gas using nanocomposite catalyst" was invented by Mohamed Nady Abd El-Hameed Ibrahim (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), Babiker Yagoub Elhadi Abdulkhair (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) and Mohamed Khairy Omran (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of producing hydrogen gas comprising hydrolyzing sodium borohydride (NaBH4) with water at a temperature of about 20 to 75deg C. in the presence of a particulate crystalline nanocomposite catalyst, wherein the ratio by weight of NaBH4 to the particulate ...