US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on July 21 for "Process for making transparent polymer-based materials for solar panels" (Saudi Arabia, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,742, issued on July 21, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Process for making transparent polymer-based materials for solar panels" was invented by Haleema Alamri (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia), Maryah Almaghrabi (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia) and Aziz Fihri (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described is a transparent polymer-based composite and a method for preparing a transparent polymer-based composite. The transparent polymer-based composite includes an activated polycarbonate and one or more nanoparticles grafted to the activated polycarbonate. The activated carbonate is formed via a transcarbonation reactio...