US Patent Issued to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS on June 3 for "Multimetal-metal organic framework adsorbent" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,704, issued on June 3, was assigned to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Multimetal-metal organic framework adsorbent" was invented by Abdul Malik P. Peedikakkal (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Isam Hasan Aljundi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Mixed metal metal-organic frameworks (MM-MOFs) of copper-1,3,5-benzenetricarboxylate (BTC), M-Cu-BTC, wherein M is Zn(II), Ni(II), Co(II), and/or Fe(II) may be made using post-synthetic exchange (PSE) with metal ions. Such MM-MOFs may be used in H2 storage, especially Ni(II) and Co(II) MM-MOFs. Selected metal exchanged materials can provi...