US Patent Issued to ELECTRASTEEL on Nov. 3 for "Iron conversion system and applications" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,369, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to ELECTRASTEEL INC. (Boulder, Colo.).

"Iron conversion system and applications" was invented by Ai Quoc Pham (Boulder, Colo.), Sandeep Nijhawan (Boulder, Colo.), Adolfredo Alvarez (Boulder, Colo.), Colleen Wallace (Boulder, Colo.) and Steven Fatur (Boulder, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for producing iron from an iron-containing ore are disclosed. For example, a method for producing iron comprises: providing an iron-containing ore to a dissolution subsystem comprising a first electrochemical cell and a dissolution tank; dissolving the iron-containing ore to form an acidic...