US Patent Issued to King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals on April 21 for "Composite material comprising pineapple peel carbon and oxygen-deficient black zinc oxide nanoparticles and a method of preparation thereof" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,696, issued on April 21, was assigned to King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Composite material comprising pineapple peel carbon and oxygen-deficient black zinc oxide nanoparticles and a method of preparation thereof" was invented by Mohamed Jaffer Sadiq Mohamed (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Muhammad Ashraf Gondal (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composite material includes pineapple peel carbon and oxygen-deficient black zinc oxide (b-ZnOvac) nanoparticles. The composite material includes 2 to 20 weight percent (wt. %) pineapple peel carbon based on a total weight of the com...