US Patent Issued to KING SAUD UNIVERSITY on Aug. 4 for "Synthesis of nanophotocatalyst for sewage water treatment" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,224, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to KING SAUD UNIVERSITY (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

"Synthesis of nanophotocatalyst for sewage water treatment" was invented by Manal Ahmed Awad (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), Hanan Fahad AlHarbi (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), Khalid Mustafa Ortashi (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), Latifah Abdullrahman AlHumaid (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) and Abdullah Anwar Ibrahim (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of synthesizing a ZnO nano-photocatalyst is provided, including providing an aqueous extract comprising pigeon droppings, filtering the aqueous extract to produce a filtrate, precipitating a solution of zinc ...