US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on July 14 for "Method of producing activated carbon" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,026, issued on July 14, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Method of producing activated carbon" was invented by Wala Algozeeb (Alkhobar, Saudi Arabia), Amer Al-Tuwailib (Qatif, Saudi Arabia) and Ibrahim Al-Zahrani (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of producing activated carbon includes pyrolyzing a hydrocarbon feedstock in the presence of a salt. The hydrocarbon feedstock includes a gas hydrocarbon, a liquid hydrocarbon, or both. The salt includes an alkali metal, an alkaline earth metal, or both."

The patent was filed on April 20, 2023, under Application No. 18/137,172.

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