ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,472, issued on July 8, was assigned to OBSHCHESTVO S OGRANICHENNOY OTVETSTVENNOST'YU "OBEDINENNAYA KOMPANIYA RUSAL INZHENERNO-TEKHNOLOGICHESKIY TSENTR" (Krasnoyarsk, Russia).

"Method for extracting scandium from scandium-containing materials" was invented by Aleksandr Borisovich Kozyrev (Krasnoyarsk, Russia), Ol'ga Viktorovna Petrakova (Krasnoyarsk, Russia), Aleksandr Gennadievich Suss (Krasnoyarsk, Russia) and Andrej Vladimirovich Panov (Krasnoyarsk, Russia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for extracting scandium from scandium-containing materials, said method comprising: re-slurring of a cake of a scandium-containing material...