US Patent Issued to BASF on May 27 for "Process for the recovery of lithium and other metals from waste lithium ion batteries" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,654, issued on May 27, was assigned to BASF SE (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany).

"Process for the recovery of lithium and other metals from waste lithium ion batteries" was invented by Wolfgang Rohde (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Birgit Gerke (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Regina Vogelsang (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Matthias Voges (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Kerstin Schierle-Arndt (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Fabian Seeler (Ludwigshafen, Germany) and Torben Adermann (Ludwigshafen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a process for the recovery of one or more transition metals and lithium from waste lithium ion batteries or parts th...