US Patent Issued to United Arab Emirates University on March 24 for "Electrical component comprising date fruit derived melanin" (Emirati Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,693, issued on March 24, was assigned to United Arab Emirates University (United Arab Emirates).

"Electrical component comprising date fruit derived melanin" was invented by Mahmoud F.Y. Al Ahmad (Al Ain, United Arab Emirates), Afaf Kamal Eldin (Al Ain, United Arab Emirates) and Muneeba Alam (Al Ain, United Arab Emirates).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process of extracting date fruit melanin from the date fruit for use in electrical application comprising providing a date fruit puree, mixing the puree with an alkaline solution to solubilize melanin, followed by acid precipitation of melanin using an inorganic acid. The melanin obt...