MUMBAI, India, June 27 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202331088316 A) filed by Tata Steel Limited, Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, on Dec. 22, 2023, for 'a method for recovering iron, cobalt, nickel and chromite.'
Inventor(s) include Sunil Kumar Tripathy; Gajanan Kapure; and Subash Chandra Mallick.
The application for the patent was published on June 27, under issue no. 26/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present disclosure relates to a method of recovering metals, such as nickel, cobalt, iron and chromite from ore material, such as nickel bearing lateritic chromite overburden and nickel laterite. The method of the present disclosure is simple, environmentally fr...