MUMBAI, India, Sept. 26 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517085182 A) filed by Agr Lithium Inc., Houston, on Sept. 8, for 'method and system for discharging spent lithium ion batteries.'

Inventor(s) include Chaudhari, Vijay; Naik, Amol; Tyagi, Vipin; and Chadha, Nishchay.

The application for the patent was published on Sept. 26, under issue no. 39/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A method of discharging a spent lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery may include contacting external electrodes of the spent Li-ion battery to a discharging solution. The discharging solution including an aqueous solution of salts having a same anion and a redox couple as cations. The redo...