US Patent Issued to Northeastern University, DONGDA NONFERROUS SOLID WASTE TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE (LIAOLING) on Aug. 5 for "Method for iron making by continuous smelting reduction" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,614, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Northeastern University (Shenyang, China) and DONGDA NONFERROUS SOLID WASTE TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE (LIAOLING) Co. LTD (Shenyang, China).

"Method for iron making by continuous smelting reduction" was invented by Tingan Zhang (Shenyang, China), Zhihe Dou (Shenyang, China), Yan Liu (Shenyang, China), Guozhi Lv (Shenyang, China), Qiuyue Zhao (Shenyang, China) and Zimu Zhang (Shenyang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for iron making by continuous smelting reduction, including: (1) mixing iron-containing mineral powder with a reducing agent and a slag former to obtain mixed powder ...