US Patent Issued to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS on March 25 for "Autoclave method for making ferric oxide" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,570, issued on March 25, was assigned to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Autoclave method for making ferric oxide" was invented by Muhammad Ramzan Saeed Ashraf Janjua (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Saba Jamil (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Shanza Rauf Khan (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thermal method of forming ferric oxide nano/microparticles with predominant morphology is described using different solvents. Methods of using the Fe3O4 nano/microparticles as catalysts in the reduction of nitro compounds with sodium borohydride to the corresponding amines and decomposition of ...