ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,021, issued on April 14, was assigned to GREENORE HOLDING Co. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Coupling system of copper slag recycling and CO 2 mineralization based on industrial solid waste" was invented by Xiaozhou Zhou (Shanghai), Yunfeng Zhang (Shanghai) and Rui Cui (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coupling system of copper slag recycling and CO2 mineralization process based on industrial solid waste includes the following steps: obtaining copper slags, performing a slag forming treatment, obtaining reforming slags, obtaining sponge iron, coupling the reforming slag with a CO2 mineralization process based on industrial solid wast...