US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Jan. 13 for "Method to co-synthesize amorphous and crystalline materials in the presence of ODSO" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,509, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Method to co-synthesize amorphous and crystalline materials in the presence of ODSO" was invented by Robert Peter Hodgkins (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Omer Refa Koseoglu (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to a method to co-synthesize amorphous and crystalline porous materials, including a phase of crystalline solids possessing well-defined structures and uniform pore sizes, and an amorphous phase. A sol-gel formulation which includes a water-soluble fraction of ODSO as an additional component i...