US Patent Issued to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS on April 15 for "Doped phase change material and method of preparation thereof" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,885, issued on April 15, was assigned to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Doped phase change material and method of preparation thereof" was invented by Md. Hasan Zahir (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Kashif Irshad (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Amjad Ali (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Ridha Ben Ali Ben Mansour (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Hafiz Ali (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes mixing a dopant salt of at least one of cobalt, nickel, zinc, and scandium with a silicate, in a solvent, to form a first solution. The method includes mixing the first solution with a solvent mixtu...