US Patent Issued to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS on Nov. 11 for "Method for cleaning a fouled water purification membrane" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,894, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Method for cleaning a fouled water purification membrane" was invented by Umair Baig (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Abdul Waheed (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A membrane including a polysulfone/polyethylene terephthalate (PSf/PET) support and an active layer on an outer surface of the PSf/PET support. The active layer comprises reacted units of a diacyl chloride compound, a tetra-amine compound, and a nanocomposite including graphitic carbon nitride and polypyrrole. The membrane of the present disclosu...