US Patent Issued to KING SAUD UNIVERSITY on Feb. 17 for "Synthesis of alkali-activated composites incorporating large quantities of electric arc furnace dust" (Saudi Arabia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,714, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to KING SAUD UNIVERSITY (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

"Synthesis of alkali-activated composites incorporating large quantities of electric arc furnace dust" was invented by Abdulrahman Sulaiman Albidah (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for synthesizing metakaolin-based alkali-activated composites with improved fresh and mechanical properties over previous methods. This can be achieved, for example, by employing waste from the steel production industry, i.e., the metakaolin in the composites can be replaced by electric-arc furnace dust (EAFD) at high replacement levels (up to ...