US Patent Issued to ALUMINUM TECHNOLOGIES on Aug. 25 for "Method for producing highB purity aluminum from aluminum chloride" (Louisiana, South Carolina, Oregon, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,778, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to ALUMINUM TECHNOLOGIES LLC (New Orleans).

"Method for producing highB purity aluminum from aluminum chloride" was invented by Donald Ray Bradford (Lebanon, Ore.), Larry George Boxall (Simpsonville, S.C.), Charles Ernest Toth (Tylertown, Texas), Charles Ernest Toth III (Jefferson, La.), Caroline Toth Reily (Metairie, La.), Charles Toth (New Orleans) and Lester L. Knapp (New Orleans).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A carbo-chlorination process is disclosed for selectively producing AlCl3 from an alumina-containing feedstock, comprising introducing the following into a fluidized bed reactor maintaine...