US Patent Issued to BASF on Sept. 9 for "Process for the recovery of lithium from waste lithium ion batteries" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,493, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to BASF SE (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for the recovery of lithium from waste lithium ion batteries or parts thereof is disclosed. The process comprising the steps of (a) providing a particulate material containing a tr...