US Patent Issued to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS on Nov. 11 for "Copolymerization process for forming a polyethylene copolymer nanocomposite" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,924, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Copolymerization process for forming a polyethylene copolymer nanocomposite" was invented by Mamdouh A. Al-Harthi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Muhammad Daud (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a polyethylene nanocomposite by polymerizing ethylene in a polymerization mixture that contains a graphene-layered double hydroxide nanocomposite, a metallocene catalyst, an alkylaluminoxane co-catalyst, and an organic solvent to form a polyethylene nanocomposite in which the graphene-layered d...