ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,871, issued on July 1, was assigned to KING SAUD UNIVERSITY (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

"Synthesis of polypeptide conjugated carbon quantum dots/metal hybrid nanoarchitectures for bioelectricity harvesting in microbial fuel cell" was invented by Ali Abdullah Alshatwi (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), Jegan A Athianrayanan (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), Vaiyapuri Subbarayan Periasamy (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) and Taghreed Naser Almanaa (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of making camel hair derived-polypeptide conjugated carbon quantum dots (CH-CQDs)-metal hybrid nanoarchitectures can include preparing a plurality of mixtures of wat...