C22B 60/0208
Preliminary treatment of ores or scrap
Official title: {preliminary treatment of ores or scrap}
C22B60/0208 (Preliminary treatment of ores or scrap) appears on 39 US grants and 19 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in C22B- Granted patents
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- Published applications
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- Latest grant
- 4 Nov 2025
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001.
Recent patents
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- Advanced beneficiation process for beneficiation, mobilization, extraction, separation, and concentration of mineralogical resources1 Oct 2024US 12,104,223 B2Advanced Fusion Systems LLC
- Uranium processing using hydrocyclone beneficiation6 Aug 2024US 12,054,806 B2Uranium Beneficiation Pty Ltd
- Method for recovering uranium from components contaminated with uranium oxide1 Nov 2022US 11,486,023 B2Framatome
- Beneficiation process for enhancing uranium mineral processing23 Aug 2022US 11,421,300 B2Uranium Beneficiation Pty Ltd
- Efficient multiphase-flow graded-separation, concentration, and purification system for argillaceous sandstone uranium ore27 Nov 2025US 2025/0361583 A1Institute of Rock and Soil Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Advanced Beneficiation Process for Beneficiation, Mobilization, Extraction, Separation, and Concentration of Mineralogical Resources12 Sep 2024US 2024/0301531 A1Advanced Fusion Systems LLC
- Advanced Beneficiation Process for Beneficiation, Mobilization, Extraction, Separation, and Concentration of Mineralogical Resources27 Apr 2023US 2023/0129947 A1Advanced Fusion Systems LLC
- System and method for dry ablation benefication of ore1 Jul 2021US 2021/0198766 A1Hatch Ltd.
- Uranium processing using hydrocyclone beneficiation28 Jan 2021US 2021/0025028 A1Uranium Beneficiation Pty Ltd
Most cited
By later US patents
- Process for continuous production of metallic uranium and uranium alloys33US 5,421,855 AThe United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy · 1995
- Recovering mineral values from ores32US 4,880,607 APhillips Petroleum Company · 1989
- Process for recovering niobium and/or tantalum metal compounds from such ores further containing complexes of uranium, thorium, titanium and/or rare earth metals16US 4,451,438 AHerman C. Starck Berlin · 1984
- Recovering mineral values from ores16US 4,892,715 APhillips Petroleum Company · 1990
- Concentration and recovery of mineral values from ores15US 4,775,413 APhillips Petroleum Company · 1988