US Patent Issued to THE GOVERNING COUNCIL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO on June 23 for "Method and system for supercritical fluid extraction of metal" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,390, issued on June 23, was assigned to THE GOVERNING COUNCIL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO.

"Method and system for supercritical fluid extraction of metal" was invented by Gisele Azimi (Toronto), Yuxiang Bill Yao (Calgary, Canada), Jiakai Zhang (Toronto) and John Joseph Naguib Anawati (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for supercritical fluid extraction of metal from a source, the method comprising: providing a reactor chamber; providing a source comprising a target metal; optionally, providing a chelating agent; providing a solvent; adding the source comprising the target metal, the chelating agent and the solvent into ...