US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on Feb. 24 for "Surface-modified activated carbon, method of producing surface-modified activated carbon and method for removing impurity from subterranean well" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,390, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Surface-modified activated carbon, method of producing surface-modified activated carbon and method for removing impurity from subterranean well" was invented by Faisal Mohammed Alissa (Dammam, Saudi Arabia), Abdulaziz A. Alaboud (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Saroj Kumar Panda (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surface-modified activated carbon includes activated carbon, a plurality of sulfonate groups, and a plurality of metal atoms. The sulfonate groups are chemically bonded to the activated carbon, and the metal atoms are...