MUMBAI, India, June 6 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517005601 A) filed by Zhengzhou Non-Ferrous Metals Research Institute Co. Ltd. Of Chalco, Henan, China, on Jan. 23, for 'method for recovering lithium from aluminum electrolysis waste cathode.'

Inventor(s) include Chen, Kaibin; Shi, Zhirong; Du, Tingting; Liu, Jianjun; Li, Ruonan; Luo, Zhongsheng; Sun, Lizhen; Wu, Jianwei; and Jing, Quanhai.

The application for the patent was published on June 6, under issue no. 23/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A method for recovering lithium from an aluminum electrolysis waste cathode, comprising: crushing waste cathode, and then washing and filtering the waste cath...