A research team from the university obtained a patent certificate from the Saudi Authority for Intellectual Property for their innovation titled "A Method for Preparing Excipients from Date Waste." This method optimally utilizes date waste after extracting active ingredients to produce nano-sized excipients for pharmaceutical tablets, representing a new technology in the pharmaceutical field.
The research team led by Dr. Fahd bin Mohammed Al-Mandrij, with the participation of Dr. Thamer Ibrahim Rajab and Dr. Wael Abdelhafeez Shindy, succeeded in innovating this optimal method for using nanotechnology in the production of a crucial nano-sized pharmaceutical excipient with highly distinguished physical and chemical properties. According to this invention, it opens new horizons in the pharmaceutical industry, allowing for rapid delivery of active ingredients in a short time, as well as reducing the concentration of active ingredients. Studies of this excipient (crystalline nanocellulose) can also be recommended for use in the industry of anti-cancer drugs due to its distinguished properties in the speed and ease of delivering the active ingredient to the affected organ.
This innovation comes as part of the "University Staff Patent Registration Project," sponsored by His Excellency the President of the University, Professor Dr. Abdulrahman bin Hamad Al-Dawood, and is one of the initiatives of the Vice Presidency for Graduate Studies and Scientific Research, represented by the Innovation and Intellectual Property Center. This project aims to improve the university's local and international ranking in the number of its registered patents, as well as to contribute to motivating university staff to transform their inventions and research ideas into protected products with economic returns. It is also noted that the protection document granted is one of the outputs of the funded research project within the institutional funding initiative of the Deanship of Scientific Research.

