US Patent Issued to National University of Singapore on March 24 for "Using synthetic lixiviant biology for the recovery of precious and toxic metals from anthropogenic sources" (Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,191, issued on March 24, was assigned to National University of Singapore (Singapore).

"Using synthetic lixiviant biology for the recovery of precious and toxic metals from anthropogenic sources" was invented by Wen Shan Yew (Singapore), Maybelle Darlene Kho Go (Singapore), Lu Ting Liow (Singapore) and Rashmi Rajasabhai (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention generally relates to methods of biological reduction of metal-cyanide complexes after metal-cyanidation and methods of biologically hydrolysing cyanide. More particularly, the present invention allows the engineering of an integrated synthetic lixiviant ...