US Patent Issued to KING FAISAL UNIVERISTY on July 14 for "Method for producing antioxidant-rich biodegradable bioplastic from date palm peels" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,934, issued on July 14, was assigned to KING FAISAL UNIVERISTY (Hofouf, Saudi Arabia).

"Method for producing antioxidant-rich biodegradable bioplastic from date palm peels" was invented by Mohamed Fikry Ibrahim (Hofouf, Saudi Arabia) and Nashi Khaled Alqahtani (Hofouf, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of producing bioplastics from date palm (Phoenix dactylifera) peels including cleaning date palm peels to provide clean date palm peels, subjecting the clean date palm peels to size reduction to provide a date palm peel powder, adding an acid solution to the date palm peel powder to form a bioplastic solution; agitat...