US Patent Issued to King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals on Dec. 16 for "Fluid catalytic cracking catalyst for organic pollutant wastewater treatment" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,309, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Fluid catalytic cracking catalyst for organic pollutant wastewater treatment" was invented by Khalid Alhooshani (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Shaima Ibrahim Alsabbahen (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Abdulkadir Tanimu (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of removing an organic pollutant from water that includes contacting contaminated water with a filtration membrane including sorbent particles of a spent fluid catalytic cracking catalyst (FCC) that includes a porous aluminosilicate material, and a carbona...