ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,760, issued on March 18, was assigned to Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Beijing).
"Separation process of metals copper anode slime based on oxidation potential modulation" was invented by Tingyu Zhu (Beijing), Yang Yang (Beijing), Wenqing Xu (Beijing), Guanjiang Yang (Beijing), Xue Wang (Beijing) and Feng Qi (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is separation process of valuable metals from copper anode slime based on oxidation potential modulation, belonging to the technical field of industrial solid waste resource utilization. The differences in redox properties of different metal elemen...