US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI on Feb. 24 for "Platinum-group metal recovery method, composition containing platinum-group metals, and ceramic material" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,819, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI (Fukui, Japan).

"Platinum-group metal recovery method, composition containing platinum-group metals, and ceramic material" was invented by Takashi Okada (Fukui, Japan), Yoshiya Taniguchi (Fukui, Japan) and Yuto Nishi (Fukui, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a platinum-group metal recovery method for efficiently recovering a platinum-group metal. The method for recovering a platinum-group metal includes an immobilization step of causing a molten product of a raw material containing a platinum-group metal, a molten product of a carbonate or hydroxide of an alka...