ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,627, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY (Changsha, China).

"Coarse particle flotation equipment and method based on coupled fluidization of cyclone and damping" was invented by Wei Sun (Changsha, China), Haisheng Han (Changsha, China), Jian Peng (Changsha, China), Yao Xiao (Changsha, China) and Yuehua Hu (Changsha, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Coarse particle flotation equipment and method based on coupled fluidization of cyclone and damping are provided. The flotation equipment includes a flotation column. A raw ore feed pipe is provided in an upper part of the flotation column. The flotation column is...