US Patent Issued to King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals on Sept. 30 for "Method for carbon dioxide fixation using a palladium-doped nitrogen-rich organic framework catalyst" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,506, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Method for carbon dioxide fixation using a palladium-doped nitrogen-rich organic framework catalyst" was invented by Bosirul Hoque (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Aasif Helal (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of carbon dioxide fixation includes contacting a covalent organic framework material with a co-catalyst and an epoxide in the presence of carbon dioxide to form a cyclic carbonate. The covalent organic framework material includes reacted units of a 2,4,6-trimethyl-1,3,5-triazine, reacted uni...