US Patent Issued to Pathfinder Holdings on April 14 for "Systems and methods for steel production" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,020, issued on April 14, was assigned to Pathfinder Holdings Corp. (Toronto).

"Systems and methods for steel production" was invented by James Maurice Small (Fredericton, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates, according to some embodiments to a method for steel production, the method comprising forming a hydrogen and a carbon from a natural gas using thermal plasma electrolysis; reducing iron ore fines with the H2 to form an iron briquette; melting the briquette iron from the furnace to form a melted iron and melted non-metallic slag; separating the non-metallic slag from the melted iron in the furnace...