US Patent Issued to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS on Nov. 4 for "Synthesis of graphene-modified polyurethane foam membrane for separating water from an oil-water mixture" (Saudi Arabia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,929, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Synthesis of graphene-modified polyurethane foam membrane for separating water from an oil-water mixture" was invented by Tawfik Abdo Saleh (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for synthesizing a hydrophilic graphene-modified polyurethane foam membrane, is described. The method includes functionalizing graphene oxide particles with tartronic acid to form a functionalized product having a hydrophilic functional group; and reacting the functionalized product with a polyurethane to form the hydrophilic...