US Patent Issued to KING FAISAL UNIVERSITY on May 6 for "Multi-layered sorbent structure and a method for enhancing oil uptake performance thereof" (Qatari, Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,795, issued on May 6, was assigned to KING FAISAL UNIVERSITY (Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia).

"Multi-layered sorbent structure and a method for enhancing oil uptake performance thereof" was invented by Junaid Saleem (Doha, Qatar), SK Safdar Hossain (Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia), Zubair Khalid Baig Moghal (Doha, Qatar) and Gordon McKay (Doha, Qatar).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-layered oil sorbent formed from two superposed polyolefin thin films and a polypropylene (PP) fibrous thin sheet sandwiched between the two superposed polyolefin thin films. Each of the two superposed polyolefin thin films include a plurality of pores defined theret...