US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on July 15 for "Date seed powder for water filtration treatment" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,927, issued on July 15, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Date seed powder for water filtration treatment" was invented by Qiwei Wang (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Ali Al-Tawfiq (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for generating and using a water filtration media containing date seed powder are provided. The method of generating the date seed powder for use in a water treatment system includes drying the date seeds, cleaning and removing the date seed envelopes, grinding the date seeds, and segregating the date seed powder according to a predetermined particle size. Th...