US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Nov. 25 for "Mesoporous zeolites and methods of making the same" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,736, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Mesoporous zeolites and methods of making the same" was invented by Faisal Alotaibi (Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia) and Lianhui Ding (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of making a mesoporous zeolite may include combining an initial zeolite with cetyltrimethylammonium bromide to form an initial zeolite mixture. The method may also include adding ammonium hexafluorosilicate and ammonium hydroxide to the initial zeolite mixture to form a treated zeolite mixture. The method may also include heating the treated zeolite mixture to ...