RIYADH: At the 49th Geneva International Exhibition of Inventions, the Kingdom’s pavilion was officially opened by Mohammed Al-Sudairi, the Saudi deputy minister of education for universities, research, and innovation.
A total of 113 inventions in the fields of science, theory, medicine, and biology have been produced by the roughly 26 Saudi Arabian universities attending the event, including 19 government universities, 2 independents, and 5 private organizations, according to the Saudi Press Agency.
Qassim University is one of the participating universities, and they have a display featuring multiple inventions and innovations.
Faculty member Abdulaziz bin Bani Alharbi of Qassim’s College of Agriculture and Food said that the college was exhibiting a patent that was filed with the Saudi Authority for Intellectual Property, which described a process for using a halophyte plant to desalinate salt water.
According to him, the innovation entailed putting the plant in a closed system with water added to enable the collection of water from the plant following the transpiration process.
Qassim was taking part in the exhibition as part of the Ministry of Education’s initiative to increase Saudi universities’ international presence in line with national objectives, according to Abdullah Almohaimeed, the head of the university’s Innovation Center and Intellectual Proper.
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