ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,268,984, issued on April 8, was assigned to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Process for removing hydrogen sulfide from sour gases with ZIF-8 mixed metal hydroxides composites" was invented by Sagheer A. Onaizi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for removing hydrogen sulfide (H2S) from a H2S-containing gas composition, including charging an aqueous media to a reactor under continuous agitation, dispersing particles of a composite in the aqueous media to form a composite mixture, continuously agitating the composite mixture, introducing the H2S-containing gas composition ...