US Patent Issued to Output Enablers on Aug. 26 for "Rhenium remediation in the preparation of molybdenum-99" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,446, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Output Enablers LLC (El Granada, Calif.).

"Rhenium remediation in the preparation of molybdenum-99" was invented by Marc Schrier (South San Francisco, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of preparing remediated MoO3 from naturally-occurring molybdenum, or molybdenum that is enriched in one, the other or both of Mo-98 and Mo-100 isotopes from a particulate rhenium-containing MoO3 matrix that contains one, the other or both of those isotopes is disclosed as is the product remediated MoO3 that contains less than about 1000 ppt rhenium. In accordance with the invention, particulate rheni...