US Patent Issued to DANIELI & C. OFFICINE MECCANICHE, HYL TECHNOLOGIES on Dec. 30 for "Method and corresponding apparatus for producing iron from direct reduction of iron ore" (Italian, Mexican Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,738, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to DANIELI & C. OFFICINE MECCANICHE S.P.A. (Buttrio, Italy) and HYL TECHNOLOGIES S.A. DE C.V. (Nicolas de los Garza, Mexico).

"Method and corresponding apparatus for producing iron from direct reduction of iron ore" was invented by Barbara Franco (Bagnaria Arsa, Italy), Paolo Roman Di Catterina (Maniago, Italy) and Jorge Eugenio Martinez Miramontes (General Escobedo-Nuevo Leon, Mexico).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing direct reduced iron is provided. The method includes circulating a first stream of spent reducing gas exiting a reactor in a reducing gas circuit through at least...