US Patent Issued to Boston Electrometallurgical on July 15 for "Molten oxide electrolysis methods and related systems" (Brazilian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,330, issued on July 15, was assigned to Boston Electrometallurgical Corp. (Woburn, Mass.).

"Molten oxide electrolysis methods and related systems" was invented by Itamar Dutra Pereira de Resende (Santa Cruz de Minas, Brazil), Breno Rezende (Tiradentes, Brazil), Rakan Ashour (Burlington, Mass.) and Guillaume Lambotte (Somerville, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Molten oxide electrolysis may be used for extracting one or more metals from a mixture of metal oxides. The mixture of metal oxides may be complex and include at least three metal oxides, each present at 0.5 wt % or greater based on a total weight of the metal oxide electr...