US Patent Issued to CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY on April 14 for "Comprehensive utilization method of beneficiation-metallurgy-chemical combination for germanium-rich lignite" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,032, issued on April 14, was assigned to CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY (Changsha, China).

"Comprehensive utilization method of beneficiation-metallurgy-chemical combination for germanium-rich lignite" was invented by Honghu Tang (Changsha, China), Feng Jiang (Changsha, China), Yixin Fu (Changsha, China), Qi Xiong (Changsha, China), Bingjian Liu (Changsha, China), Zhenyue Zhang (Changsha, China), Li Wang (Changsha, China) and Wei Sun (Changsha, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A comprehensive utilization method of beneficiation-metallurgy-chemical combination for germanium-rich lignite includes the following steps: 1) germanium-rich l...