US Patent Issued to ELECTRASTEEL on March 17 for "Ore dissolution and iron conversion system" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,696, issued on March 17, was assigned to ELECTRASTEEL INC. (Boulder, Colo.).

"Ore dissolution and iron conversion system" was invented by Ai Quoc Pham (Boulder, Colo.), Sandeep Nijhawan (Boulder, Colo.), Adolfredo Alvarez (Boulder, Colo.) and Steven Fatur (Boulder, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for dissolving an iron-containing ore are disclosed. For example, a method of processing and dissolving an iron-containing ore comprises: thermally reducing one or more non-magnetite iron oxide materials in the iron-containing ore to form magnetite in the presence of a reductant, thereby forming thermally-reduced or...