US Patent Issued to Airbus Defence and Space, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung on Jan. 27 for "Method and system for extracting metal and oxygen from powdered metal oxides" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,818, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Airbus Defence and Space GmbH (Taufkirchen, Germany) and Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).

"Method and system for extracting metal and oxygen from powdered metal oxides" was invented by Achim O. Seidel (Taufkirchen, Germany), Uday B. Pal (Framingham, Mass.), Peter Quadbeck (Dresden, Germany) and Astrid Adrian (Taufkirchen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for extracting metal and oxygen from powdered metal oxides in electrolytic cell is proposed, the electrolytic cell comprising a container, a cathode, an anode and an oxygen-ion-conduc...