US Patent Issued to IMAM MOHAMMAD IBN SAUD ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY on Dec. 2 for "Method of producing hydrogen gas using nanocomposite catalyst" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,164, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to IMAM MOHAMMAD IBN SAUD ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

"Method of producing hydrogen gas using nanocomposite catalyst" was invented by Babiker Yagoub Elhadi Abdulkhair (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), Mohamed Khairy Omran (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) and Mohamed Nady Abd El-Hameed Ibrahim (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of producing hydrogen gas comprising hydrolyzing sodium borohydride (NaBH4) with water at a temperature of from about 20deg C. to about 75deg C. in the presence of a particulate crystalline nanocomposite catalyst, where the ratio by weight of NaBH4 to the...