US Patent Issued to King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals on Oct. 28 for "Method of cultivating algal biomass using oilfield hypersaline brine" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,673, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Method of cultivating algal biomass using oilfield hypersaline brine" was invented by Shaikh Abdur Razzak (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Mohammed Omar Faruque (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Mohammad Mozahar Hossain (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of cultivating algal biomass using oilfield hypersaline brine (HSB) including: admixing oilfield HSB with a first aqueous composition including source(s) of nitrogen and phosphorous to form an aqueous medium having a total salinity of from 0.1 to 40 g/L; inoc...