US Patent Issued to CVF International on May 27 for "Separation of rare earth elements by means of physical chemistry" (Russian, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,650, issued on May 27, was assigned to CVF International LLC (New York).

"Separation of rare earth elements by means of physical chemistry" was invented by Pavel Moseev (Moscow), Aleksandr Klachkov (Moscow Oblast, Russia), Roman Tertychnyy (Moscow Oblast, Russia) and Aleksandr Khasin (Ness Ziona, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for cyclical enrichment, especially of rare earth elements and isotopes. A tube, or ampule, optionally with one crucible, or with two coaxially opposite crucibles in fluid communication, is used to hold a source material in vacuum and irradiate the source material to enri...