US Patent Issued to ALBEMARLE on June 10 for "Systems and methods for producing lithium carbonate and uses thereof" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,641, issued on June 10, was assigned to ALBEMARLE Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Systems and methods for producing lithium carbonate and uses thereof" was invented by Yinzhi Zhang (Charlotte, N.C.), Jeffrey McCall (Kings Mountain, N.C.), Peiyu Cai (Cramerton, N.C.) and Richard A Holub (Huntersville, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods of producing lithium carbonate. The lithium carbonate can be produced by contacting a lithium precursor with a carbon dioxide gas. The lithium carbonate produced from this method can include micron-sized lithium carbonate particles with nano-sized lit...