Intellectual Property India Publishes Patent Application for 'Improved Metal Production' Filed by The University Of Birmingham

MUMBAI, India, June 13 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517038169 A) filed by The University Of Birmingham, Edgbaston, U.K., on April 21, for 'improved metal production.'

Inventor(s) include Ding, Yulong; and Kildahl, Harriet.

The application for the patent was published on June 13, under issue no. 24/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A system (100) for metal production, the system comprising: a reducing furnace (110) configured to receive metal ore (101) and process gas (102) and to output hot metal (115) and reducing furnace top gas (111); and a first thermochemical reactor (130) configured to, in a first mode, receive at least a portion (163) of the reduc...