US Patent Issued to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS on Aug. 26 for "White light-emitting asphaltene-based composites for self-illuminating pavements" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,271, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"White light-emitting asphaltene-based composites for self-illuminating pavements" was invented by Ahmed El-Zohry (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Theis Solling (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of illuminating a pavement including mixing asphaltenes and a polymer in a solvent to form a solution. The method further includes coating the pavement with the solution and evaporating the solvent to form a coated pavement, followed by irradiating the coated pavement. Following the irradiation, the asphalten...