ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,165, issued on June 2, was assigned to KUWAIT UNIVERSITY (Safat, Kuwait).

"Aluminum alloy-based effervescent tablet for producing enhanced heat transfer suspensions" was invented by Naser Alsayegh (Safat, Kuwait), Nawaf F. Aljuwayhel (Safat, Kuwait) and Husain Ashkanani (Safat, Kuwait).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of forming nanoparticles from aluminum cans is provided, wherein the nanoparticles may be used to fabricate effervescent tablet for suspension production. The method includes collecting, cleaning, and drying aluminum cans; shredding and melting the aluminum cans and forming the melted aluminum cans into small parts...