US Patent Issued to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS on Aug. 26 for "Polypropylene bag sorbent device" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,280, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Polypropylene bag sorbent device" was invented by Khalid Alhooshani (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Kazeem O. Sulaiman (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Muhammad Sajid (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sorbent device based on a porous membrane bag (e.g., porous propylene membrane bag) encapsulated alkaline-modified zeolite (e.g., alkaline-treated USY zeolite). A process for removing heavy metals, such as Cd(II), Cr(III), and Pb(II) from an aqueous solution or an industrial wastewater samples with the sorbent devic...