US Patent Issued to King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals on May 12 for "Method of cleaning a fouled reverse osmosis membrane" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,171, issued on May 12, was assigned to King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Method of cleaning a fouled reverse osmosis membrane" was invented by Majad Khan (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Asif Matin (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Nadeem Baig (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of cleaning a fouled reverse osmosis (RO) membrane using a comb-shaped polymer which includes dissolving the comb-shaped polymer and a base in water to form a solution, contacting the fouled RO membrane with the solution to produce a cleaned RO membrane. The comb-shaped polymer includes reacted units of poly(...