ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,732, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia).

"Modified zeolites that include zirconium-containing organometallic moieties and methods for making such" was invented by Robert Peter Hodgkins (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Omer Refa Koseoglu (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Jean-Marie Maurice Basset (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia), Kuo-Wei Huang (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia), Anissa Bendjeriou Sedjerari (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia), Manoj K. Gangwar (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia) and Sathiyamoorthy Murugesan (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: ...