US Patent Issued to CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY on June 16 for "System and process for sustainable electrowinning of metal" (Ohio Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,655,533, issued on June 16, was assigned to CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY (Cleveland).

"System and process for sustainable electrowinning of metal" was invented by Rohan Akolkar (Cleveland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for production of metal(s) by molten-salt electrolysis includes direct non-carbothermic chlorinating of ore containing metal oxide(s) to produce metal chloride(s); and electrolysis of molten salt(s) of the metal chloride(s) for electrowinning of metal(s) product."

The patent was filed on Nov. 10, 2022, under Application No. 18/054,277.

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