ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,120, issued on May 13, was assigned to C-KOE Metals LP (Euless, Texas) and Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas).

"Devices and methods of using small form aluminum in consecutive batch aluminum chlorohydrate processes" was invented by Chase McTaggart (Euless, Texas), Brian Hodges (Euless, Texas), Charles Koetting (Euless, Texas), Frederick M MacDonnell (Austin, Texas), Brian Dennis (Austin, Texas) and Mark Hulsizer (Euless, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of producing aluminum chlorohydrate comprises adding small form aluminum metal pellets to a reactant receiving space of a reactor tank to fo...