A new system for purifying water using solar energy researched and designed at KSU was just awarded a US Patent on April 16. The water purifying system was invented by a interdepartmental research team from the College of Engineering, comprised of Hany Al-Ansary, Essam Al-Bahkali from the Mechanical Engineering Department, and Essam A. Al-Ammar from the Department of [...]
Smart cards could be about to get a lot more secure thanks to the invention of two scientists from King Saud University’s College of Computer and Information Sciences in Riyadh. Invented by assistant professor Hanan Mahmoud and associate professor Khaled Alghathbar, the process uses a new way of hiding critical and sensitive information in smart [...]
The importance of harnessing the creative power of students at King Saud University has been the key topic of a workshop at the Female Center for Scientific and Medical Colleges in Riyadh last month. Entitled “The Innovation System: From the Idea to the Market” the workshop’s aims were to update students on the innovation system, discuss [...]
Securing the next generation of nuclear reactors from earthquake damage could be an invention developed right here in Saudi Arabia at King Saud University. KSU in association with the King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology has received a US patent for an isolation system that diverts up to 95 percent of the highly destructive [...]
Budding inventors among the staff and faculty at King Saud University have been buoyed by a workshop conducted by the university’s Intellectual Property and Technology Licensing (IPTL) program to explain how they, and the university, can capitalize on their inventions. In association with the Advanced Manufacturing Institute (AMI), IPTL Director Khalid Al-Saleh described during the workshop on [...]
A dental device invented by Dr. Mohammed Taher Bukhary, a faculty member in King Saud University’s College of Dentistry, has been approved by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The “oral retractor,” one of more than 15 devices that the KSU College of Dentistry has had patented or is awaiting patent approval, is designed [...]
A revolutionary new intravenous syringe attachment invented by King Saud University graduate Dr. Abdullah Khalid Al-Rasheed was patented on February 23 by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The neurology consultant’s patented syringe can be used without a pump barrel attached to a traditional stainless steel needle that sometimes ruptures blood veins, causing patients significant [...]
Dr. Sherif Elwatidy, a neurology professor at the College of Medicine at King Saud University, recently patented a new method he produced for preserving bone for transplant procedures. Elwatidy’s project, titled “Preservation and Restoration of Cranial Bone Flaps” received its patent from the United States Patent and Trademark Office on Feb. 26. Dr. Khalid Al-Saleh, [...]
King Saud University’s Dr. Mutasim Ibrahim Khalil of the Science College’s Chemistry Department was recently granted European Patent Number EP 2505558B1 for his invention titled, “Process for Preparing Magnetite (Fe3O4) and Derivatives Thereof.” The derivatives mentioned are ferrogels and spinels, and all three have the element iron in common. The advantage of Dr. Khalil’s invention lies in [...]
A dental model base maker designed by a King Saud University College of Dentistry professor recently received a design patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO). Prof. Mohammed Taher Bukhary was awarded Patent No. 672,045 on December 4, 2012, according to Dr. Khalid Al-Saleh, director of KSU’s Intellectual Property and Technology (IPTL) program. The invention [...]
Monday, April 22, 2013
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