US Patent Issued to Technische Universitaet Munchen, Philipps-Universitat Marburg on June 3 for "Preparation of metal fluorides and separation processes" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,589, issued on June 3, was assigned to Technische Universitaet Munchen (Munich) and Philipps-Universitat Marburg (Marburg, Germany).

"Preparation of metal fluorides and separation processes" was invented by Tobias Chemnitz (Garching, Germany), Florian Kraus (Penzing, Germany), Winfried Petry (Baldham, Germany), Christian Steyer (Garching, Germany), Stefan Rudel (Marburg, Germany) and Riane Stene (Marburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a process which allows uranium and molybdenum fluorides to be efficiently separated, said process comprising a step of providing a mixture containing MoF6 and UF6; a step of reducing...