ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,632, issued on Aug. 5.
"Bauxite processing method" was invented by Boris Nikolaevich Ulko (Kaliningrad, Russia), Johann Eirich (Ruppertshofen, Germany) and Vitali Welmann (Schwaebisch Gmuend, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bauxite processing method including: preliminarily grinding bauxites; mixing the bauxites as ground with magnetic field treated water into a pulp; exposing the pulp in a reaction chamber to a rotating magnetic field created by rotating ferromagnetic elements, carried out in a vortex layer generated by ferromagnetic elements rotating at a speed of at least 2800 rpm, to achieve a magnetoelastic effect and pr...