Patents Assigned to KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
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Patent number: 11938466Abstract: Embodiments of catalyst systems and methods of synthesizing catalyst systems are provided. The catalyst system may include a core comprising a zeolite; and a shell comprising a microporous fibrous silica. The shell may be in direct contact with at least a majority of an outer surface of the core. The catalyst system may have a Si/Al molar ratio greater than 5. At least a portion of the shell may have a thickness of from 50 nanometers (nm) to 360 nm.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: King Abdullah University of Science and TechnologyInventors: Leilei Xu, Jean-Marie Basset, Pradeep Kumar Doggali
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Patent number: 11932546Abstract: Disclosed herein are modified zeolites and methods for making modified zeolites. In one or more embodiments disclosed herein, a modified zeolite may include a microporous framework including a plurality of micropores having diameters of less than or equal to 2 nm. The microporous framework includes at least silicon atoms and oxygen atoms. The modified zeolite may further include organometallic moieties each bonded to bridging oxygen atoms. The organometallic moieties include a hafnium atom. The hafnium atom is bonded to a bridging oxygen atom, and bridging oxygen atom bridges the hafnium atom of the organometallic moiety and a silicon atom of the microporous framework.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2023Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignees: King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabian Oil CompanyInventors: Robert Peter Hodgkins, Omer Refa Koseoglu, Jean-Marie Maurice Basset, Kuo-Wei Huang, Anissa Bendjeriou Sedjerari, Manoj K. Gangwar, Sathiyamoorthy Murugesan
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Publication number: 20240083758Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to zeolites and method for making such zeolites. According to embodiments disclosed herein, a zeolite may have a microporous framework including a plurality of micropores having diameters of less than or equal to 2 nm and a plurality of mesopores having diameters of greater than 2 nm and less than or equal to 50 nm. The microporous framework may include an MFI framework type. The microporous framework may include silicon atoms, aluminum atoms, oxygen atoms, and transition metal atoms. The transition metal atoms may be dispersed throughout the entire microporous framework.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicants: Saudi Arabian Oil Company, King Abdullah University of Science and TechnologyInventors: Robert Peter Hodgkins, Omer Refa Koseoglu, Kuo-Wei Huang, Jean-Marie Maurice Basset, Yu Han, Rajesh Parsapur, Anissa Bendjeriou Sedjerari, Sathiyamoorthy Murugesan
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Publication number: 20240084932Abstract: A reinforced thermoplastic composite pipe or pressure vessel may include an elongate tubular body that has an outer surface, and at least one reinforcement layer disposed on the outer surface of the elongate tubular body. The reinforcement layer may include one or more layers of ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) tape. The UHMWPE tape may be a composite that includes multiple UHMWPE film layers. A method of forming a reinforced thermoplastic composite pipe may include extruding an elongate tubular body having an outer surface, wrapping at least one reinforcement layer on the outer surface of the elongate tubular body, and positioning a cover layer as the outermost layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2022Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicants: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY, King Abdullah University of Science and TechnologyInventors: Sanjay Rastogi, Joris Van der Eeem, Dario Romano, Abderrazak Traidia
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Patent number: 11918336Abstract: A method for classifying input data includes receiving the input data that describe an object, wherein the input data corresponds to plural classes; associating the input data with voxels that describe the object; calculating a real-number sequence X(n), which is associated with a measured parameter P that describes the object; quantizing the real-number sequence X(n) to generate a finite set sequence Q(n), where n describes a number of levels; generating a voxel-based weight matrix for each class of the input data; and calculating a score S for each class of the plural classes, based on a corresponding voxel-based weight matrix. The score S is a number that indicates a likelihood that the input data associated with a given sample belongs to a class of the plural classes.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2020Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Taous Meriem Laleg, Fahad Ali Albalawi, Abderrazak Chahid
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Patent number: 11914267Abstract: A laser source includes a first laser device configured to generate a first laser beam having a first wavelength, a second laser device configured to generate a second laser beam having a second wavelength, which is different from the first wavelength, and a non-linear crystal configured to receive simultaneously the first and second laser beams and to generate a third laser beam that has a third wavelength, which is larger than each of the first and second wavelengths. The non-linear crystal has a length and a width, and a variable poling period is distributed across the width so that the third wavelength varies within a given wavelength range based on an incident position of the first and second laser beams along the width of the non-linear crystal.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignees: KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, POLITECNICO DI MILANOInventors: Mohammad Khaled Shakfa, Marco Lamperti, Marco Marangoni, Aamir Farooq
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Patent number: 11903386Abstract: A strigolactone analog-based composition comprising at least one compound represented by: (I) wherein Ra, Rb, Rc, Rf, Re, and Rz are selected. The compositions can be used in, for example, plant growth regulation and weed control, including controlling the germination of parasitic root plants, inhibiting rice tillering, and triggering leaf senescence.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2017Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Salim Al-Babili, Tadao Asami, Tsuyoshi Ohta
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Patent number: 11905246Abstract: A molecular building block composition can include a metal ion component; and a ligand component including a core including at least one functional group associated with the metal ion component and the core.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: King Abdullah University of Science & TechnologyInventors: Mohamed Eddaoudi, Dongxu Xue, Ryan Luebke, Vincent Guillerm, Abdul Malik Puthan Peedikakkal, Karim Adil, Lukasz Weselinski
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Patent number: 11901596Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to portable energy generation devices and methods. The devices are designed to covert formic acid into released hydrogen, alleviating the need for a hydrogen tank as a hydrogen source for fuel cell power. In particular, an electricity generation device for powering a battery comprising a formic acid reservoir containing a liquid consisting of formic acid; a reaction chamber capable of using a catalyst and heat to convert the formic acid to hydrogen and carbon dioxide; a fuel cell that generates electricity; a delivery system for moving converted hydrogen into the fuel cell; and a battery powered by electricity generated by the fuel cell is provided.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2022Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: King Abdullah University of Science and TechnologyInventors: Kuo-Wei Huang, Junrong Zheng
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Patent number: 11892446Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for simultaneously assaying cell adhesion or cell rolling for multiple cell specimens. One embodiment provides a system for assaying adhesion or cell rolling of multiple cell specimens that includes a confocal imaging system containing a parallel plate flow chamber, a pump in fluid communication with the parallel plate flow chamber via a flow chamber inlet line and a cell suspension in fluid communication with the parallel plate flow chamber via a flow chamber outlet line. The system also includes a laser scanning system in electronic communication with the confocal imaging system, and a computer in communication with the confocal imaging system and laser scanning system. In certain embodiments, the laser scanning system emits multiple electromagnetic wavelengths simultaneously it cause multiple fluorescent labels having different excitation wavelength maximums to fluoresce.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2016Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Jasmeen Merzaban, Ayman F. Abuelela, Amal J. Ali
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Patent number: 11886537Abstract: A method for estimating a status of a system includes performing independent measurements on the system, associating a value P(?) with a Monte Carlo calculated probability measure P(?), which depends on (1) a preset threshold Nu of unfavorable events, and (2) a total number Ñtot(?) of the independent measurements for collecting the preset threshold Nu, setting a threshold level ? requiring that a critical value ?c of a power related metric ? makes a value P(?c) of the probability measure P to be substantially equal to the threshold level ?, comparing the total number Ñtot(?) to a ratio of (1) a product of a control parameter ? the preset threshold Nu, and (2) the threshold level ?, and interrupting the independent measurements if Ñtot(?) is larger than the ratio, or increasing an output of the system if Ñtot(?) is smaller than or equal to the ratio.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2022Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Shuping Dang, Basem Shihada, Mohamed-Slim Alouini
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Patent number: 11886011Abstract: An optical microstructure is configured to work with an optical fiber or a different substrate and the optical microstructure includes a beam converter including a tapered optical guide configured to transform a gaussian optical beam into a first annular optical beam; an inverted cone having first and second reflection surfaces, each configured to reflect the first annular optical beam, having a radius R1, so that a resulting second annular optical beam has a radius R2 larger than the radius R1; and a prism having a reflection surface configured to reflect the second annular optical beam to form a third converging annular optical beam. The third converging annular optical beam includes plural single optical beams that intersect at a given crossing point, outside the optical microstructure. The plural single optical beams form an optical trap.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2021Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Carlo Liberale, Andrea Bertoncini, Innem Venkata Anudeep Kumar Reddy
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Patent number: 11885769Abstract: An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has a flight-only mode with a motor only rotating propellers and not rotating on-board wheels to configure the UAV to fly away from a surface of a structure, and a crawling-only mode in which the UAV is configured to crawl on the surface due to the motor only rotating the wheels while not rotating the propellers. In the flight-only mode, a clutch disengages a motor from the wheels so that the motor only engages the propellers to fly to lift from the surface. In the crawling-only mode, the clutch disengages the motor from the propellers so that the motor only engages the wheels to move the UAV on the surface.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2021Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignees: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY, KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Fadl Abdellatif, Jeff S. Shamma, Sultan Shaqaq, Abdullah Arab, Abdullah A. Alkhder, Sahejad Patel
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Patent number: 11879338Abstract: An opposed, free-piston engine includes a pair of adjacent cylinders, each extending from a first cylinder end to a second cylinder end along an elongate axis and having a first cylinder housing a first pair of opposed, free pistons including a first piston housed towards the first cylinder end and a second piston housed towards the second cylinder end; a second cylinder housing a second pair of opposed, free pistons having a third piston and a fourth piston; and a pair of link rods including a first link rod and a second link rod. The first link rod has a first link rod end and a second link rod end, the second link rod having a third link rod end and a fourth link rod end.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2021Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventor: James Turner
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Patent number: 11874178Abstract: A wavefront sensor includes a mask and a sensor utilized to capture a diffraction pattern generated by light incident to the mask. A reference image is captured in response to a plane wavefront incident on the mask, and another measurement image is captured in response to a distorted wavefront incident on the mask. The distorted wavefront is reconstructed based on differences between the reference image and the measurement image.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2021Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: King Abdullah University of Science and TechnologyInventors: Congli Wang, Xiong Dun, Qiang Fu, Wolfgang Heidrich
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Methods for processing hydrocarbons to produce light olefins using catalyst formulations or mixtures
Patent number: 11873452Abstract: Light olefins may be produced from hydrocarbons by a method including passing a hydrocarbon feed stream into one or more feed inlets of a reactor, using catalyst formulations or mixtures. Catalyst formulations may include multi-zeolite composite particles, or a mixture that is a physically mixed combination of separate particles of at least first composite particles of a first type of zeolite and second composite particles of a second type of zeolite. The reactor may include an upper reactor portion defining an upper reaction zone and a lower reactor portion defining a lower reaction zone. The catalyst may move in a generally downward direction through the upper reactor portion and the lower reactor portion, and the hydrocarbon feed stream may move in a generally upward direction through the lower reactor portion and upper reactor portion such that the hydrocarbon feed stream and the catalyst move with a counter-current orientation.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2022Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignees: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY, King Abdullah University Of Science And TechnologyInventors: Ola S. Ali, Khalid Ali Almajnouni, Jorge Gascon Sabate, Tuiana Bairovna Shoinkhorova, Alberto Rodriguez Gomez, Alla Dikhtiarenko -
Patent number: 11867657Abstract: A gas sensor includes a gate electrode; a dielectric layer covering one surface of the gate electrode; an indium (In) gallium (Ga) zinc (Zn) oxide (O) (IGZO) thin-film formed over the dielectric layer, and first and second metallic electrodes formed on a surface of the IGZO thin-film to act as source and drain, respectively. The IGZO thin-film has an In concentration of 11%+/?3%, Ga concentration of 11%+/?3%, Zn concentration of 7%+/?3%, and O concentration of 71%+/?3%, with a sum of the concentrations being 100%, and the gas interacts with the IGZO thin-film and changes a current through the IGZO thin-film.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2020Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Mani Teja Vijjapu, Sandeep G. Surya, Saravanan Yuvaraja, Khaled Nabil Salama
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Patent number: 11858196Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure describe a magnetic substrate including a cured magnetic ink and a cured polymer resin, wherein the cured magnetic ink includes a plurality of functionalized magnetic iron oxide nanoparticles and wherein the magnetic substrate is a freestanding magnetic substrate.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2022Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: King Abdullah University of Science and TechnologyInventors: Mohammad Vaseem, Farhan Abdul Ghaffar, Atif Shamim
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Patent number: 11859491Abstract: A system for determining a water cut of a water/oil emulsion includes a water cut sensor with a magnetoelastic ribbon, an inductive coil arranged proximate to the magnetoelastic ribbon so that an electromagnetic field produced by the inductive coil electromagnetically excites the magnetoelastic ribbon, and an alternating current source. A processor is configured to determine the water cut of the water/oil emulsion based on a resonant frequency of the magnetoelastic ribbon while the magnetoelastic ribbon is excited by the inductive coil. A feed line is coupled to the water cut sensor. The feed line includes an electrical coupling between the alternating current source and the inductive coil of the water cut sensor. The feedline includes an electrical coupling between the processor and the inductive coil of the water cut sensor or the processor is coupled to an acoustic sensor.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2019Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Jürgen Kosel, Altynay Kaidarova, Abdullah Saud Almansouri, Mohammed Asadullah Khan, Liam Swanepoel
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Patent number: D1013502Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2021Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Sebastian Schmidt-Roach, Carlos M. Duarte, Manuel Aranda Lastra, Charlotte A. E. Hauser