US Patent Issued to UMICORE on Dec. 30 for "Process for preparing a high-purity nickel sulphate solution" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,361, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to UMICORE (Brussels).

"Process for preparing a high-purity nickel sulphate solution" was invented by Werner Verdickt (Olen, Belgium), Joris Roosen (Olen, Belgium), Wannes De Moor (Olen, Belgium) and Jan Luyten (Olen, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a process for preparing a high-purity nickel sulphate solution, comprising the steps of: i. forming an aqueous mixed metal sulphate solution by reacting sulphuric acid with a raw material feed comprising nickel, manganese, cobalt, and magnesium in an aqueous medium; ii. extracting manganese from said aqueous mixed ...