ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,494, issued on July 28, was assigned to NINGXIA ORIENT TANTALUM INDUSTRY Co. LTD. (Shizuishan, China).
"Method for producing tantalum powder and tantalum powder obtained by the method" was invented by Yuewei Cheng (Shizuishan, China), Hongyuan Liang (Shizuishan, China), Shun Guo (Shizuishan, China), Jinfeng Zheng (Shizuishan, China), Haiyan Ma (Shizuishan, China), Jingyi Zuo (Shizuishan, China), Li Zhang (Shizuishan, China), Hongjie Qin (Shizuishan, China), Tong Liu (Shizuishan, China) and Ying Wang (Shizuishan, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method produces tantalum powder. The method includes: (1) uniformly mixing a tantalu...