US Patent Issued to PRINCE MOHAMMAD BIN FAHD UNIVERSITY on Nov. 3 for "Multiple-layer solar-driven desalination system" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,685, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to PRINCE MOHAMMAD BIN FAHD UNIVERSITY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Multiple-layer solar-driven desalination system" was invented by Muhammad Farooq (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Muhammad Imran Khan (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Noreen Sher Akbar (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solar-driven desalination system includes a longitudinal photothermal evaporator incorporating a photothermal layer formed from three-dimensional graphene oxide-metal oxide (3D GO-MO) nanoscrolls decorated with metal oxide nanoparticles on the inner and outer scroll surfaces. The 3D GO-MO nanoscrolls exhibit con...