US Patent Issued to KUWAIT UNIVERSITY on March 17 for "Carbon black-based aqueous suspensions with improved stability" (Kuwaiti Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,404, issued on March 17, was assigned to KUWAIT UNIVERSITY (Safat, Kuwait).

"Carbon black-based aqueous suspensions with improved stability" was invented by Naser Alsayegh (Safat, Kuwait), Nawaf F. Aljuwayhel (Safat, Kuwait), Husain Ashkanani (Safat, Kuwait) and Yousef Abdullah Altourah (Safat, Kuwait).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for enhancing the dispersion stability of carbon black-based aqueous suspensions is provided. The method includes forming a thin sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) monolayer on the outer surface of the carbon black materials before the carbon black materials are dispersed in a base fluid. This is done ...