US Patent Issued to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS on June 30 for "Bimetallic nanoalloy composite" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,834, issued on June 30, was assigned to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Bimetallic nanoalloy composite" was invented by Aasif Helal (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Mohammed Ahmed Sanhoob (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of making a bimetallic nanoalloy composite includes mixing and dissolving a nickel salt, a cobalt salt, and an aromatic carboxylic acid in a first solvent to form a first mixture; mixing acetic acid with the first mixture and heating at a temperature of 150 to 200 degrees Celsius (deg C.) form a second mixture; washing the second mixture with at least ...