US Patent Issued to JFE Steel on March 31 for "Method of extracting precipitates and/or inclusions, method of quantitatively analyzing precipitates and/or inclusions, and electrolyte" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,377, issued on March 31, was assigned to JFE Steel Corp. (Tokyo).

"Method of extracting precipitates and/or inclusions, method of quantitatively analyzing precipitates and/or inclusions, and electrolyte" was invented by Seiya Sugawara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A precipitate and/or an inclusion in a metal material are extracted by electrolysis using an electrolyte solution. The electrolyte solution contains an adsorbent physically adsorbed and/or chemically adsorbed to any metal other than a matrix metal of the metal material. The extracted precipitate and/or inclusion can be quantitatively analyzed with high accuracy." ...