US Patent Issued to MONTANUNIVERSITAT LEOBEN on May 12 for "Method of removing volatile constituents from an industrial dust, and valuable material-containing product" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,417, issued on May 12, was assigned to MONTANUNIVERSITAT LEOBEN (Leoben, Austria).

"Method of removing volatile constituents from an industrial dust, and valuable material-containing product" was invented by Jurgen Antrekowitsch (Leoben, Austria), Stefan Steinlechner (Trofaiach, Austria) and Michael Auer (Trofaiach, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A product and method for producing a valuable material product from industrial dust having the steps of providing the industrial dust, which has at least one valuable material and a first concentration of volatile constituents, to a heating device with an operating temperature of 600d...