ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,477, issued on May 27, was assigned to Blosenta Inc. (Toronto).
"Method and apparatus for producing core-shell calcium hydroxide-calcium carbonate particles" was invented by Maen Husein (Calgary, Canada) and Noora Naif Darwish (Calgary, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for preparing calcium carbonate (CaCO3) coated calcium hydroxide (Ca(OH)2) particles. The method includes introducing liquid carbon dioxide into a reaction vessel, introducing calcium hydroxide particles into the reaction vessel, and effectively mixing the calcium hydroxide particles into the liquid carbon dioxide. The method further includes inducing a p...