US Patent Issued to COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANISATION on April 21 for "Process for removing cyanide from a cyanide-bearing aqueous fluid" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,462, issued on April 21, was assigned to COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANISATION (Acton, Australia).

"Process for removing cyanide from a cyanide-bearing aqueous fluid" was invented by Xianwen Dai (Aubin Grove, Australia) and Paul Breuer (Bull Creek, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a process for removing cyanide from a cyanide-bearing aqueous fluid, the process comprising: (i) adding a solid composition comprising a first mixed-metal cyanide complex comprising copper and iron to a cyanide-bearing aqueous fluid comprising free cyanide and metal-complexed cyanide, wherein at least a...