ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,977, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to INSTITUTE OF PROCESS ENGINEERING, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (Beijing).

"Method for separating and purifying phosphoric acid and phosphogypsum from wet-process phosphoric acid slurry, and phosphoric acid and phosphogypsum prepared thereby" was invented by Huiquan Li (Beijing), Ganyu Zhu (Beijing), Ziheng Meng (Beijing) and Kun Yan (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application provides a method for separating and purifying phosphoric acid and phosphogypsum from a wet-process phosphoric acid slurry, and phosphoric acid and phosphogypsum prepared thereby. The method is beneficial ...