US Patent Issued to King Abdullah University of Science and Technology on Aug. 4 for "Flexible artificial leaves for hydrogen production and methods for making" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,599, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia).

"Flexible artificial leaves for hydrogen production and methods for making" was invented by Rami Tarek El Afandy (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia), Mohamed Ebaid Abdrabou Hussein (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia), Boon S. Ooi (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia) and Tien Khee Ng (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments provide novel devices, nanowires, apparatuses, artificial leaves, photoelectrodes and membranes for photochemical energy production and methods of fabricating the same. The devices, apparatuses, artificial leaves, photo...