ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,787, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY (Changsha, China).
"Membrane-stacked electrolytic bath for lithium extraction from salt lakes by electrochemical intercalation/deintercalation" was invented by Lihua He (Changsha, China), Zhongwei Zhao (Changsha, China) and Xuheng Liu (Changsha, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A membrane-stacked electrolytic bath for lithium extraction from salt lakes by electrochemical intercalation/deintercalation includes a positioning supporting plate as well as a first compressing plate, a first rubber gasket, at least one electrochemical intercalation/deintercalation unit, a ...