US Patent Issued to IMAM MOHAMMAD IBN SAUD ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY on March 31 for "Nanocomposite for wastewater treatment" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,018, issued on March 31, was assigned to IMAM MOHAMMAD IBN SAUD ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

"Nanocomposite for wastewater treatment" was invented by Mohamed Khairy Abdel Fattah Omran (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) and Babiker Yagoub Elhadi Abdulkhair (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of immobilizing contaminants disposed in an aqueous medium comprising contacting the aqueous medium with a particulate crystalline nanocomposite for a sufficient contact time to permit adsorption of the contaminants. The particulate crystalline nanocomposite includes: a tetragonal (CaMoO4) crystalline phase; a (CaSiO3)...