US Patent Issued to Carbon Holdings Intellectual Properties on July 15 for "Methods and apparatus for production of electrochemical graphite" (Wyoming, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,322, issued on July 15, was assigned to Carbon Holdings Intellectual Properties LLC (Ranchester, Wyo.).

"Methods and apparatus for production of electrochemical graphite" was invented by James T. Dietz (Mars, Pa.), Robert McDowell (Sheridan, Wyo.) and Charles Agee Atkins (Sheridan, Wyo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of producing graphite may include beneficiating an amount of coal to form a coal char, grinding the coal char to produce a crushed char and placing the crushed char in a porous container. Then, the method includes immersing the porous container in a molten salt bath. The molten salt bath includes a graphite anod...