ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,954, issued on July 22, was assigned to RED MUD ENTERPRISES LLC (New York).

"System for processing red mud and method of processing red mud" was invented by Gary McNeish (Manchester, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of processing red mud comprising: heating red mud to a predetermined temperature; grinding the red mud to a predetermined particle size; and physically extracting iron components from the red mud; physically extracting aluminum components from the red mud, said physically extracting of aluminum components being separate from the physically extracting of iron components, wherein the steps of physically...