US Patent Issued to Altek Europe on Aug. 11 for "Processing methods and processing apparatus" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,895, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Altek Europe Ltd. (Chesterfield, Great Britain).

"Processing methods and processing apparatus" was invented by Alan Peel (Chesterfield, Great Britain) and Andrew Gibbs (Chesterfield, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for processing a material, the material being the upper layer from a metal melting process, the material containing one or more salts, the material containing one or metals, are provided. The method includes feeding the material to a size reduction step; feeding the material from the size reduction step to a density based separation step; feeding th...