US Patent Issued to King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals on April 14 for "Method of synthesizing carbon quantum dots" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,630, issued on April 14, was assigned to King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Method of synthesizing carbon quantum dots" was invented by Billel Salhi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Mazen Khaled Nazal (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Amir Al-Ahmed (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Ismail Abdulazeez (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of synthesizing carbon quantum dots (CQDs) includes using a dried ground Halodule uninervis seagrass to form a suspension in water, followed by centrifuging and filtering through a filter membrane and a dialysis membrane to form a CQDs solution. The CQDs have a...