US Patent Issued to IMAM MOHAMMAD IBN SAUD ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY on Oct. 28 for "Nanocomposite for the immobilization or degradation of pollutants" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,952, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to IMAM MOHAMMAD IBN SAUD ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

"Nanocomposite for the immobilization or degradation of pollutants" 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 nanocomposite material comprising, as determined by X-ray diffraction (XRD): an orthorhombic CaB2O4 crystalline phase; a triclinic MnMgB2O5 crystalline phase; and, a Ca3B2O6 crystalline phase. The particulate nanocomposite mater...