ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,651, issued on March 25, was assigned to KUNMING METALLURGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE Co. LTD. (Kunming, China).
"Method for extracting germanium based on acid decomposition" was invented by Xiaocai He (Kunming, China), Huixian Shi (Kunming, China), Jiuyang Ren (Kunming, China), Na Xu (Kunming, China), Ye Yuan (Kunming, China), Qingxin Xu (Kunming, China), Yina Li (Kunming, China), Qiugu He (Kunming, China), Ting Ren (Kunming, China), Yuan Xu (Kunming, China), Weizhi Diao (Kunming, China), Sen Yan (Kunming, China) and Hui Zhang (Kunming, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for extracting germanium based on acid decomposition i...