ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,632, issued on June 10, was assigned to Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek TNO (The Hague, Netherlands).

"Production of carbon dioxide and ammonia from residual gases in the steel and metal industries" was invented by Jaap Ferdinand Vente (The Hague, Netherlands), Vasileios Sfakianakis (The Hague, Netherlands) and Paul Dean Cobden (The Hague, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a process for the production of carbon dioxide and ammonia for the production of urea or ammonium carbamate from residual gases in the steel and metal industries, in particular basic ...