MUMBAI, India, Aug. 8 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517032781 A) filed by Young Poong Corporation, Seoul, Republic of Korea, on April 2, for 'method for recovering lithium from waste lithium batteries.'
Inventor(s) include Moon, Nam Il; Lee, Ho Jo; Kim, Eung Bae; and Yoo, Su Hwan.
The application for the patent was published on Aug. 8, under issue no. 32/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present invention relates to a method for efficiently recovering valuable metals from end-of-life waste lithium batteries by dry molten smelting and, more particularly, to a method for recovering lithium by mixing ground or crushed waste lithium batteries with a flux ...