US Patent Issued to OCP on June 23 for "Processes for the recovery of uranium" (Moroccan, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,719, issued on June 23, was assigned to OCP S.A. (Casablanca, Morocco).

"Processes for the recovery of uranium" was invented by Driss Dhiba (Casablanca, Morocco), Mounir El Mahdi (Casablanca, Morocco), William W Berry (Lakeland, Fla.) and Thomas E. Baroody (Lakeland, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes a method of recovering uranium including a continuous ion exchange (CIX) process including a single cycle or a dual cycle CIX process and at least a gradient elution or resin crowding process. The present disclosure also describes an apparatus including a single cycle or dual cycle CIX system and a grad...