ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,241,141, issued on March 4, was assigned to KINALTEK Pty LTD. (Kogarah, Australia).
"Low temperature reduction of metal oxides" was invented by Jawad Haidar (Kogarah, Australia), Bilal Khan (Kogarah, Australia) and Rajan Gnanarajan (Kogarah, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a method for reducing a metal oxide in a metal oxide containing precursor. The method comprises providing a reaction mixture comprising the metal oxide containing precursor and an aluminium reductant; heating the reaction mixture in the presence of solid or gaseous aluminium chloride to a temperature at which reactions that result in the me...