US Patent Issued to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS on July 1 for "Alkaline-treated zeolite based sorbent device, and use for heavy metal removal" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,700, issued on July 1, was assigned to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Alkaline-treated zeolite based sorbent device, and use for heavy metal removal" was invented by Khalid Alhooshani (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Kazeem O. Sulaiman (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Muhammad Sajid (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sorbent device based on a porous membrane bag (e.g., porous propylene membrane bag) encapsulated alkaline-modified zeolite (e.g., alkaline-treated USY zeolite). A process for removing heavy metals, such as Cd(II), Cr(III), and Pb(II) from an aqueous solution or an industri...