ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,612, issued on July 28, was assigned to YEDA RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT Co. LTD. (Rehovot, Israel).

"Recovery of rare earth metals from ferromagnetic alloys" was invented by Igor Lubomirsky (Petach-Tikva, Israel) and Valery Kaplan (Rehovot, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for recovery of at least one rare earth metal from ferromagnetic alloy are described, and further methods of atomic hydrogen decrepitation of a ferromagnetic alloy."

The patent was filed on Aug. 31, 2021, under Application No. 17/462,047.

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