ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,726, issued on Nov. 25.

"Method for the high efficiency recycling of iron phosphate black powder slag" was invented by Robert Brian Huang (Las Vegas) and Richard Brian Huang (Las Vegas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This method recycles iron phosphate slag, which is produced as waste during lithium iron phosphate battery recycling processes that contain leaching or crushing for the sole extraction of lithium. This method extracts aluminum phosphate, iron phosphate, and lithium phosphate from the waste slag. The recycling process comprises these steps: (a) extraction of aluminum phosphate through addition of sodium hydroxide; (b) remo...