US Patent Issued to Universidad de Santiago de Chile on July 8 for "Continuous process for iodide cutting and autogenous fusion and separation of iodine, and device for carrying out the process" (Chilean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,468, issued on July 8, was assigned to Universidad de Santiago de Chile (Santiago, Chile).

"Continuous process for iodide cutting and autogenous fusion and separation of iodine, and device for carrying out the process" was invented by Ricardo Emilio Vega Viveros (Santiago, Chile).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a process for obtaining and refining elemental iodine contained in an iodide solution, which specifically comprises the steps of iodide cutting, and iodine melting, which take place simultaneously by reacting the preheated iodide solution with an oxidizing agent for directly producing elemental mo...