US Patent Issued to Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University on Aug. 25 for "Water treatment and purification method" (Saudi Arabia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,781, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

"Water treatment and purification method" was invented by Hanan Hussein Amin Mohamed (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing crystalline Alpha-Fe2O3 nanoparticles involving ultrasonic treatment of a solution of an iron (III)-containing precursor and an extract from the seeds of a plant in the family Linaceae. The method involves preparing an aqueous extract from the seeds of a plant in the family Linacae and dropwise addition of the extract to the solution of an iron (III)-containing precursor. Th...