ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,585, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to King Abdulaziz University (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia).

"Method of making carbon nanotube bundles" was invented by Ahmed Obaid Alzahrani (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia), Meshari Abdullah Alayash (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia), Salem D. Alghamdi (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia), Sami Alghamdi (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia), Ammar Melaibari (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia), Saleh Ahmed Al-Ghamdi (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia) and Thamer S. Almoneef (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of making an array of vertically-aligned CNT bundles includes dispersing iron oxide nanoparticles in a solvent to form a suspension. The method fur...