US Patent Issued to SCANDIUM CANADA on May 5 for "High pressure caustic leach methods and processes for recovery of scandium and rare-earth oxides" (German, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,693, issued on May 5, was assigned to SCANDIUM CANADA LTD. (Montreal).

"High pressure caustic leach methods and processes for recovery of scandium and rare-earth oxides" was invented by Yemi Oyediran (Mississauga, Canada), Daniel Rische (Freudenberg, Germany) and Christian Graf (Amberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Despite the abundance of scandium, its commercial applications continue to be limited by the absence of reliable, secure, stable and long-term production. The subject-matter disclosed herein provides for a method for extracting Rare Earth Elements (REE), scandium and/or Rare-Earth Oxides (REO) from ore and mineral ...