ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,783, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Conductive cobalt based metal organic framework on carbon cloth for water splitting and method of preparation thereof" was invented by Munzir Hamedelniel Mohamed Suliman (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Muhammad Usman (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Syed Niaz Ali Shah (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrocatalyst that includes a carbon cloth (CC) substrate including carbon fibers having a mean diameter of 2.5 to 25 micrometer (micro metre), and a catalyst disposed on the CC substrate, the catalyst including ...