US Patent Issued to ArianeGroup on Aug. 12 for "Method for extracting ammonium perchlorate from a solid composite propellant" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,733, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to ArianeGroup SAS (Les Mureaux, France).

"Method for extracting ammonium perchlorate from a solid composite propellant" was invented by Aurelie Mano (Andernos-les-Bains, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for recovering ammonium perchlorate from a solid composite propellant, the method being carried out at a temperature of less than 50deg C. involving maceration of solid composite propellant fragments in the form of an aqueous suspension, the method being terminated when the ionic conductivity in the aqueous suspension reaches a stabilized value, of less than 60 mS/cm."

The patent wa...