US Patent Issued to Johnson Matthey on Dec. 9 for "Methods for the separation and/or purification of metals" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,448, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Johnson Matthey PLC (London).

"Methods for the separation and/or purification of metals" was invented by Jonathan Edgar (Billingham, Great Britain), Daniel Marin Florido (Reading, Great Britain), David Foxwell (Enfield, Great Britain), Paul Noel O'Shaughnessy (Reading, Great Britain) and Andreas Tsoligkas (Enfield, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for separating at least two metals from each other in a metal refining process, the method comprising: injecting a feed solution comprising the metals into a column or flow pipe comprising a monolithic solid body having a plurality ...