ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,747, issued on March 24, was assigned to thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions AG (Essen, Germany) and thyssenkrupp AG (Essen, Germany).

"Method for producing phosphoric acid and calcium sulphate quality suitable for a clinker process for the commercial and industrial utilization of calcium sulphate" was invented by Peter Stockhoff (Dorsten, Germany), Stefan Helmle (Hamm, Germany), Deyvi Javier Rivas Villarreal (Dortmund, Germany) and Nicolai Daheim (Beckum, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process may involve digesting raw phosphate with concentrated sulfuric acid and converting the raw phosphate to calcium sulfate in the form ...