ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,942, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to BASF SE (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany).
"Battery recycling by reduction and carbonylation" was invented by Wolfgang Rohde (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Torben Adermann (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Kerstin Schierle-Arndt (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Nuria Huguet Subiela (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Andreas Kempter (Ludwigshafen, Germany) and Birgit Gerke (Ludwigshafen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a process for the recovery of transition metals from battery materials comprising (0.1) providing a battery material which comprises oxidic nickel and/or cobalt compounds, ...