US Patent Issued to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS on July 14 for "Azo-linked organic polymers for carbon dioxide capture and metal ion removal" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,769, issued on July 14, was assigned to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Azo-linked organic polymers for carbon dioxide capture and metal ion removal" was invented by Mahmoud Mohamed Abdelnaby (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Tawfik Abdo Saleh (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A polymer including reacted units of 1,3,5-trihydroxybenzene and a compound A represented by Formula (I) below,in Formula (I), n=0-5. Compound A is bonded to the 1,3,5-trihydroxybenzene through an azo bond to form the polymer, represented by Formula (II) below,in Formula (II), represents a repeating unit of...