US Patent Issued on March 18 for "Method of making a mercury based compound, mercury based compound, methods of using the mercury based compound and uses of the mercury based compound" (Indian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,998, issued on March 18.

"Method of making a mercury based compound, mercury based compound, methods of using the mercury based compound and uses of the mercury based compound" was invented by Suneel Navnitdas Parekh (Mumbai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mercury-based compound is in powder form and has the general chemical formula: M1aXb, where M1 is Hg, MxcMyd or a combination thereof, with Mx being Hg and My being an arbitrary element; wherein X is chloride, bromide, fluoride, iodide, sulphate nitrate or a combination thereof, wherein a, b, c and d are numbers between 0.1 and 10, wherein particles of the powder have a mi...