US Patent Issued to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS on Nov. 25 for "Development of oxynitride glass-ceramics preparations and uses thereof" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,758, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Development of oxynitride glass-ceramics preparations and uses thereof" was invented by Abbas Saeed Hakeem (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Sharafat Ali (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Muhammad Ali Ehsan (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Natalia Anna Wojcik (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Md Abdul Aziz (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A glass-ceramic material includes an oxynitride glass with a chemical formula Ca7Al14Si17OsN7 and zinc oxide. The zinc oxide is present in an amount of 8 to 16 percent by weight based on the total w...