US Patent Issued to King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals on July 14 for "Method of storing hydrogen in an underground geological formation" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,656, issued on July 14, was assigned to King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Method of storing hydrogen in an underground geological formation" was invented by Aneeq Nasir Janjua (Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia), Shirish Patil (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Mohamed Mahmoud (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Muhammad Shahzad Kamal (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Arshad Raza (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Mobeen Murtaza (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of storing hydrogen includes treating an underground geological formation containing subterranean rocks and absorbing the hydrogen gas into the treated u...