US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO METAL MINING on Nov. 11 for "Slurry processing apparatus, microbubble generation equipment, and slurry processing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,899, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to SUMITOMO METAL MINING Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Slurry processing apparatus, microbubble generation equipment, and slurry processing method" was invented by Yoshihiko Nakao (Niihama, Japan) and Shintaro Ishikawa (Niihama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a slurry treatment apparatus includes: a treatment tank for performing any treatment of a solid-liquid reaction, a solid-gas reaction, a gas-liquid reaction, and solid-liquid separation on a slurry containing a metal or a metal compound; a first pipe; a second pipe; and a pump, in which one end of the first pipe has a suction opening f...