US Patent Issued to INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE on April 7 for "Method of preparing scandium metal" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,531, issued on April 7, was assigned to INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Method of preparing scandium metal" was invented by Sheng-Chun Fu (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan), Yang-Sheng Huang (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan) and Chia-Ming Chang (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of preparing scandium metal includes mixing aluminum powder and scandium fluoride powder to form a mixture, heating the mixture in a vacuum environment to react the aluminum powder with the scandium fluoride powder for forming aluminum fluoride gas and scandium metal, and removing the aluminum fluoride gas by evacuation ...