US Patent Issued to THE GOVERNING COUNCIL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO, TENOVA GOODFELLOW on May 20 for "Methods for recovering a target metal from iron or steel slag using at least one of a carbothermic reduction process and a pyro-hydrometallurgical process" (Canadian, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,260, issued on May 20, was assigned to THE GOVERNING COUNCIL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO (Toronto) and TENOVA GOODFELLOW INC. (Mississauga, Canada).

"Methods for recovering a target metal from iron or steel slag using at least one of a carbothermic reduction process and a pyro-hydrometallurgical process" was invented by Gisele Azimi (Toronto), Jihye Kim (Toronto), Vittorio Scipolo (Etobicoke, Canada) and Enrico Malfa (Zanica, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Pyro-hydrometallurgical methods are described to economically and environmentally recover a target metal from iron slag or steel slag. For instance, the method can enable su...