ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,357, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Circu Li-ion S.A. (Luxembourg).

"Method for processing rechargeable batteries" was invented by Alexander Xavier Christof Kohll (Saeul, Luxembourg), Karthik Mathivanan (Luxembourg) and Harry I. Schaaf (Rheinmunster, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for processing rechargeable batteries. The object of the invention described here is to provide a method for processing rechargeable batteries, via which rapid, resource-conserving, cost-effective, and sustainable reprocessing of a rechargeable battery is made possible. This is achieved by the method according...