Intellectual Property India Publishes Patent Application for 'Alkyl Carbonates As Reducing Agents In Hydrometallurgy' Filed by Basf Se

MUMBAI, India, March 28 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517023721 A) filed by Basf Se, Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany, on March 17, for 'alkyl carbonates as reducing agents in hydrometallurgy.'

Inventor(s) include Rohde, Wolfgang; Elwert, Tobias; Duchardt, Marc; and Seeler, Fabian.

The application for the patent was published on March 28, under issue no. 13/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Disclosed herein are methods for extracting one or more metals from a material, wherein the method comprises: contacting the material with an acidic aqueous solution having a pH less than 7, and reducing, with an alkyl carbonate, one or more metal oxides chosen from nick...