MUMBAI, India, May 16 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517022471 A) filed by Cytec Industries Inc., Lawrence, U.S.A., on March 12, for 'reagents and processes for removing heavy metals from phosphoric acid solutions.'

Inventor(s) include Zhang, Lei; Hiremath, Ravi Rajshekar; Wang, Kewei; and Tokmic, Kenan.

The application for the patent was published on May 16, under issue no. 20/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Processes for removing heavy metal ions in phosphoric acid mixtures by adding an effective amount of reagents comprising a plurality of sulfur groups to the phosphoric acid mixture to form heavy metal complexes, and separating the heavy metal comple...