ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,353, issued on March 31, was assigned to BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY (Beijing) and INNER MONGOLIA RUIXIN CHEMICAL Co. LTD (Inner Mongolia, China).

"Process for the recovery of high purity metallic sodium and the safe treatment of high calcium content sodium slag" was invented by Junqing Pan (Beijing), Qiuchen Wang (Beijing), Keyu Wang (Beijing), Yan Chen (Inner Mongolia, China) and Yanzhi Sun (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to the field of non-ferrous metal and chemical industries for the production of metal sodium, and discloses a process for the preparation of high purity metall...