US Patent Issued to BANIQL on April 14 for "Nickel extracting method" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,077, issued on April 14, was assigned to BANIQL (San Jose, Calif.).

"Nickel extracting method" was invented by Willy Sandi Halim (San Jose, Calif.), Eric Cristian Januar (Fremont, Calif.), Steven Selverston (San Jose, Calif.), Aristotle Vergara (Newark, Calif.) and Xiaoliang Lin (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides an extracting method of extracting nickel from laterite minerals. The extracting method comprises steps of gathering laterite minerals, placing electrodes into a solution, heating the solution to 75 degrees Celsius, placing the electrodes within the solution, applying a constant cur...