US Patent Issued to INSTITUTE OF PROCESS ENGINEERING, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES on March 24 for "Method for extracting palladium" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,232, issued on March 24, was assigned to INSTITUTE OF PROCESS ENGINEERING, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (Beijing).

"Method for extracting palladium" was invented by Tianyan Xue (Beijing), Zhanpeng Yan (Beijing), Hui Zhang (Beijing), Ying Yu (Beijing), Tao Qi (Beijing) and Minghui Liu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for extracting palladium includes: (1) mixing a palladium-containing material with nitric acid and an alkali metal ion-containing catalyst to obtain a mixed solution, heating the mixed solution, and removing a resulting residue to obtain a palladium-containing leaching liquor; and (2) subjecting the pallad...