ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,506, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Kunming University of Science and Technology (Kunming, China).

"Recovery method for valuable metals in copper anode slime" was invented by Bin Yang (Kunming, China), Baoqiang Xu (Kunming, China), Wenlong Jiang (Kunming, China), Juhai Deng (Kunming, China), Dachun Liu (Kunming, China), Yang Tian (Kunming, China), Yifu Li (Kunming, China), Lingxin Kong (Kunming, China) and Jia Yang (Kunming, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a recovery method for valuable metals in copper anode slime. By using the recovery method of the disclosure, selenium, copper, tellurium, arsenic, lead, bismut...