ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,830, issued on June 2, was assigned to PRINCE MOHAMMAD BIN FAHD UNIVERSITY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Spectroscopic method of cadmium estimation in aqueous samples" was invented by M. Amin Mir (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Syed M. Hasnain (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and K Andrews (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spectroscopic method of estimating the cadmium concentration in an aqueous sample including: preparing at least 5 aqueous calibration samples, each calibration sample including water, a pH regulator in an amount such that each calibration sample has a pH of from 8 to 10, an equal concentration of dimethylglyoxime ...