US Patent Issued to Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University on Aug. 5 for "Method for generating steam and electricity with solar power" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,136, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Method for generating steam and electricity with solar power" was invented by Abdul Aziz Afzal (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Muhammad Azhar Ali Khan (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Muhammad Asad (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Leen Hassan Al Badah (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Ahad Khalid Alghamdi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Lina Ashraf Altahini (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Razan Salem Abuzaid (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Shams Ameen Almomen (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An absorber tube for a parabolic trough solar power plant is described. T...