US Patent Issued to China University of Mining and Technology on March 17 for "Method for extracting and recovering gold from aqueous solution" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,635, issued on March 17, was assigned to China University of Mining and Technology (Xuzhou City, China).

"Method for extracting and recovering gold from aqueous solution" was invented by Peng Li (Xuzhou City, China), Chenlong Duan (Xuzhou City, China) and Guofu Dai (Xuzhou City, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a method for extracting and recovering gold from an aqueous solution, the method including: (1) gold extraction from an aqueous solution through electrocoagulation, in which an electrocoagulation reaction is performed in an electrolytic cell to produce iron hydroxide in-situ, so as to captu...