US Patent Issued to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS on Oct. 7 for "Porous self-cleaning photocatalytic membrane" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,205, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Porous self-cleaning photocatalytic 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 disclosure is self-cle...