ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,553, issued on May 27, was assigned to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Materials and methods for surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) based detection of dibenzothiophene in fuel oils" 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 composi...