US Patent Issued to KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on April 29 for "Method for making smart sand" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,741, issued on April 29, was assigned to KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia) and SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Method for making smart sand" was invented by Peng Wang (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia), Jian Chang (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia), Zeyad Ahmed (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Yifeng Shi (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia) and Chisiang Ong (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A smart sand includes raw sand particles, synthetic SiO2 particles attached to the raw sand particles, a first material attached to a first set of the synthetic SiO2 particles, a second material attached to a second...