US Patent Issued to RARE EARTH SALTS SEPARATION AND REFINING on April 21 for "Process and method for separating rare earth elements from leach solutions" (Nebraska Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,884, issued on April 21, was assigned to RARE EARTH SALTS SEPARATION AND REFINING LLC (Minot, N.D.).

"Process and method for separating rare earth elements from leach solutions" was invented by Joseph Brewer (Beatrice, Neb.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An improved method for separating individual and/or groups of rare earth elements from rare earth bearing leach solutions to produce high purity materials for further refinement. According to a first preferred embodiment, the present invention includes a method comprising the steps of: neutralizing a leach solution; introducing ozone into the solution while controlling pH and precip...