US Patent Issued to NAJRAN UNIVERSITY on Jan. 13 for "Method for extracting keratin from wool/natural fibers using ionic liquids reinforced with sonication" (Saudi Arabia, New Zealander, Pakistani Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,632, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to NAJRAN UNIVERSITY (Najran, Saudi Arabia).

"Method for extracting keratin from wool/natural fibers using ionic liquids reinforced with sonication" was invented by Mabkhoot Abdullah Alsaiari (Najran, Saudi Arabia), Nawshad Muhammad (Peshawar, Pakistan), Sandleen Feroz (Dunedin, New Zealand), George Dias (Dunedin, New Zealand), Saeed A. Alsareii (Najran, Saudi Arabia) and Farid A. Harraz (Najran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for extracting keratin from wool fibers is described. The method includes treating the wool fibers in a solvent, washing, and drying to form cleaned wo...