US Patent Issued to Almatis on Jan. 20 for "Method for preparing high purity aluminum monohydrate and alpha alumina" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,710, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Almatis GmbH (Ludwigshafen, Germany).

"Method for preparing high purity aluminum monohydrate and alpha alumina" was invented by Tobias Frueh (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Marius Schustereder (Ludwigshafen, Germany) and Wolfram J. Lingenberg (Ludwigshafen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention concerns a method of preparing aluminum monohydrate comprising the steps of i) mixing alumina feedstock with ethylenediamine tetraacetic acid, to obtain a feedstock mixture, and ii) subjecting the feedstock mixture to a hydrothermal treatment, wherein the wherein the pH of the feedstock m...