ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,115, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to NATIONAL INSTITUTES FOR QUANTUM SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Chiba, Japan) and KAKEN INC. (Mito, Japan).

"Method for producing beryllium solution, method for producing beryllium, method for producing beryllium hydroxide, method for producing beryllium oxide, and beryllium oxide" was invented by Masaru Nakamichi (Chiba, Japan), Jaehwan Kim (Chiba, Japan), Yoshiaki Akatsu (Chiba, Japan), Suguru Nakano (Chiba, Japan), Tomohiko Kawakami (Mito, Japan) and Kazuo Yonehara (Mito, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention has an object to provide a method for producing a beryllium solution by disso...