US Patent Issued to Phoenix Tailings on July 15 for "Systems and methods for recovery of substances from molten salt electrolysis" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,945, issued on July 15, was assigned to Phoenix Tailings Inc. (Woburn, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for recovery of substances from molten salt electrolysis" was invented by Thomas Anthony Villalon Jr. (Boston), Richard Robert Salvucci (Quincy, Mass.) and Henry Chase Hutcheson (Malden, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for recovery of gaseous substances from molten salt electrolysis are generally described. Certain systems comprise a cell configured for molten salt electrolysis; a collector fluidically connected to the cell and configured to collect volatilized molten salt from the cell; and a gas scrubber flui...