US Patent Issued to SUNCOKE TECHNOLOGY AND DEVELOPMENT on Nov. 11 for "Use of residual iron within granulated metallic unit production facilities, and associated systems, devices, and methods" (Illinois, New Jersey, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,973, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to SUNCOKE TECHNOLOGY AND DEVELOPMENT LLC (Lisle, Ill.).

"Use of residual iron within granulated metallic unit production facilities, and associated systems, devices, and methods" was invented by John Francis Quanci (Haddonfield, N.J.), John Michael Richardson (Devon, Pa.), Patrick James Mullarkey (Manhattan, Ill.), David James Schwake (Aurora, Ill.), Andrew Michael Butor (Cranberry Township, Pa.), Jonathan Hale Perkins (Lisle, Ill.) and Chun Wai Choi (Lisle, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Reduced-waste systems and methods for granulated metallic units (GMUs) production are disclosed herein. ...