US Patent Issued to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS on Nov. 4 for "Method of adsorbing chloride ions in an aqueous solution" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,836, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Method of adsorbing chloride ions in an aqueous solution" was invented by Othman Charles Al Hamouz (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Tawfik A. Saleh (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of adsorbing chloride ions from an aqueous solution with a nanocomposite. The nanocomposite including iron nanoparticles, aluminum nanoparticles and guar gum. The nanocomposite is in the form of extruded cylindrical particles in which the iron nanoparticles and the aluminum nanoparticles are dispersed in a matrix of the gu...