US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on June 23 for "Long term stability of mesoporous nano-capsules of cationic surfactant at high temperature and salinity conditions" (Saudi Arabia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,622, issued on June 23, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Long term stability of mesoporous nano-capsules of cationic surfactant at high temperature and salinity conditions" was invented by Ahmed Wasel Alsmaeil (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for stabilizing mesoporous materials includes providing a suspension including a mesoporous particle, wherein the mesoporous particle includes an encapsulated surfactant; contacting the suspension with a solution including ring-opened GLYMO at a temperature ranging from 40 to 80deg C. and at a pH ranging from 8 to 11 to form a surf...