US Patent Issued to Georgia Tech Research on March 24 for "Methods for selective recovery of rare earth elements and metals from coal ash by ionic liquids" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,190, issued on March 24, was assigned to Georgia Tech Research Corp. (Atlanta).

"Methods for selective recovery of rare earth elements and metals from coal ash by ionic liquids" was invented by Laura Stoy (Atlanta) and Ching-Hua Huang (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure provides a method to extract components from a metal-containing material, forming a first multicomponent system comprising an ionic liquid and a first aqueous component, wherein the first aqueous component and the ionic liquid form an immiscible mixture when the first multicomponent system is at a temperature belo...