US Patent Issued to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS on July 14 for "Carbon dioxide hydrogenation catalyst" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,771, issued on July 14, was assigned to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Carbon dioxide hydrogenation catalyst" was invented by M. Nasiruzzaman Shaikh (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Mahbuba Aktary (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Atif Alzahrani (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Mohamed Ahmed Yahya Sanhoob (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A carbon dioxide (CO2) hydrogenation catalyst and a method of its preparation. The CO2 hydrogenation catalyst includes an alkali-metal enriched bauxite residue including calcium carbonate (CaCO3), iron(III) oxide (Fe2O3), iron(III) oxyhydroxide (FeO(OH)), alum...