US Patent Issued to Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University on June 30 for "Nanohybrid catalyst for hydrogenation reactions" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,833, issued on June 30, was assigned to Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

"Nanohybrid catalyst for hydrogenation reactions" was invented by Asma Mohammed Zamil Elsharif (Dammam, Saudi Arabia) and Monerah Ahmed Hassan Almarzooq (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nanohybrid material includes a plurality of gold nanohybrid particles having formula (I). The gold nanohybrid particles have a gold nanoparticle (AuNPs) core and a shell of at least one fatty acid derivative at least partially disposed around the AuNPs core. The AuNPs core has a cuboidal shape and an average particle size of 20 ...