ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,378, issued on March 31, was assigned to UACJ Corp. (Tokyo).
"Method and apparatus for producing aluminum material" was invented by Junji Nunomura (Tokyo), Yukio Honkawa (Tokyo), Yoichi Kojima (Tokyo) and Tetsuya Tsuda (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing an aluminum material, including: providing an electrolytic cell in which an anode electrode containing 0.01 to 30% by mass Si and Al and a cathode electrode are immersed in an electrolytic solution and depositing aluminum on the cathode electrode by energizing the anode electrode and the cathode electrode in the electrolytic solution."
The patent was...