US Patent Issued to King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals on April 21 for "Surface-enhanced Raman scattering material" (Saudi Arabia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,783, issued on April 21, was assigned to King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Surface-enhanced Raman scattering material" was invented by Mohammad Kamal Hossain (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surface-enhanced Raman scattering material includes a zinc oxide nanostructure and silver nanoparticles. The silver nanoparticles are incorporated into the zinc oxide nanostructure to form a silver nanoparticle-incorporated zinc oxide nanostructure. The silver nanoparticle-incorporated zinc oxide nanostructure includes zinc in an amount of 52 to 58 percent by weight (wt. %), oxygen in...