US Patent Issued to Battelle Memorial Institute on Aug. 25 for "Selective recovery of rare earth elements from alloys by electrochemical leaching and electrodeposition" (Washington, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,143, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Wash.).

"Selective recovery of rare earth elements from alloys by electrochemical leaching and electrodeposition" was invented by Hyung-Seok Lim (Richland, Wash.), Wei Wang (Richland, Wash.), Vijayakumar Murugesan (West Richland, Wash.), Chinmayee Venkata Subban (Seattle) and Tasya S. Nasoetion (Sugar Land, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for selectively recovering a rare earth element (REE) from an alloy includes applying a potential of from -3.5 V to 0 V to an electrochemical cell comprising a anode, a cathode, and an electrolyte, wherein (...