US Patent Issued to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS on July 22 for "Surface-enhanced Raman scattering substrate for fuel oil analysis" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,534, issued on July 22, was assigned to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Surface-enhanced Raman scattering substrate for fuel oil analysis" was invented by Abdulaziz Abdulrahman Al-Saadi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Sathiyamoorthy Murugesan (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Muhammad Haroon (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Tawfik A. Saleh (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) substrate is provided. The SERS substrate includes a transparent substrate and a nanocomposite composition. The nanocomposite composition includes a silver-loaded silica (Ag-SiO2) na...