ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,492, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY (Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates).

"Photocatalytic degradation and removal of imidacloprid insecticide using hydrophilic magnetic covalent organic frameworks (COFs)" was invented by Shaikha Saif Alneyadi (Al Ain, United Arab Emirates), Mohammed Taleb Khamis Saif Alhassani (Al Ain, United Arab Emirates), Sultan Ali Jama (Al Ain, United Arab Emirates), Ali Saeed Saif Aleissaee (Al Ain, United Arab Emirates), Muneb Redwan Mukhtar (Al Ain, United Arab Emirates), Ibrahim Abdulrahim Ibrahim Almujaini (Al Ain, United Arab Emirates) and Hamad Khalifa Mukhtar Ahmed Alblooshi (Al Ain, United Arab Emirates).

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