ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,580, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to NINGXIA ORIENT TANTALUM INDUSTRY Co. LTD. (Shizuishan, China).
"Method for producing tantalum powder for capacitors by reducing tantalum oxide with alkaline earth metal" was invented by Yuewei Cheng (Shizuishan, China), Jinfeng Zheng (Shizuishan, China), Hongyuan Liang (Shizuishan, China), Shun Guo (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 by reducing tantalum oxid...