US Patent Issued to Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University on July 14 for "Method for dye degradation in aqueous solution" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,772, issued on July 14, was assigned to Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

"Method for dye degradation in aqueous solution" was invented by Essia Hannachi (Dammam, Saudi Arabia), Yassine Slimani (Dammam, Saudi Arabia), Muhammad Nawaz (Dammam, Saudi Arabia), Munirah A. Almessiere (Dammam, Saudi Arabia) and Abdulhadi Baykal (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of degrading a dye in an aqueous solution including contacting nanoparticles with the dye in the aqueous solution and irradiating the aqueous solution. The nanoparticles have a formula of Zn1-2xCexYbxO, x=0.01-0.1, and where at...