US Patent Issued to SMS group on Jan. 20 for "Method for the pyrometallurgical smelting of metal-containing raw materials, waste materials and/or secondary waste materials" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,125, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to SMS group GmbH (Dusseldorf, Germany).

"Method for the pyrometallurgical smelting of metal-containing raw materials, waste materials and/or secondary waste materials" was invented by Frank Marlin Kaussen (Aachen, Germany), Nikolaus Peter Kurt Borowski (Dusseldorf, Germany), Markus Andreas Reuter (Dusseldorf, Germany), Stephan Geimer (Muhlheim, Germany), Timm Lux (Meerbusch, Germany) and Rolf Degel (Ratingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a method for the pyrometallurgical smelting of metal-containing raw materials, waste materials and/or secondary waste...