US Patent Issued to Magnesium Innovations Group on Dec. 30 for "Process for magnesium metal extraction from mineral sources" (Indiana Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,747, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Magnesium Innovations Group Inc. (Indianapolis).

"Process for magnesium metal extraction from mineral sources" was invented by Bala Anand Jeldi (Carmel, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is a metal extraction process that includes preparing a homogeneous admixture of metal oxide powder, reducing agent powder, and catalyst powder, pelletizing the admixture to yield a plurality of pellets, positioning the plurality of pellets in a cartridge, positioning the cartridge in a reducing chamber and heating the reducing chamber to a reducing temperature, pulling a partial vacuum...