US Patent Issued to AQUA METALS on Sept. 29 for "Systems and methods for direct oxide production" (California, Nevada Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,511, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to AQUA METALS INC. (Reno, Nev.).

"Systems and methods for direct oxide production" was invented by Brian James Dougherty (Emeryville, Calif.), Samaresh Mohanta (Dublin, Calif.), Benjamin Sol Taecker (Reno, Nev.) and David Regan (McCarran, Nev.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Lead oxide particles are produced in a ball mill or Barton pot-type process from a lead product formed by an electrolytic process that continuously generates metallic lead. The lead product may be in form of lead flakes, spongy lead, or a nano- and/or microcrystalline lead matrix that is directly obtained from the electrolyt...