ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,848, issued on June 10, was assigned to Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Beijing) and Beijing Zhongke Brunp Recycling Technology Innovation Co. LTD (Beijing).

"Process and device for recycling waste lithium battery materials" was invented by Zhi Sun (Beijing), Fei Kang (Beijing), Yujuan Zhao (Beijing), Dingshan Ruan (Beijing), Dangwen Zhang (Beijing), Wenyi Yan (Beijing) and Tianya Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process and a device for recycling waste lithium battery materials are provided. The process includes: S10. charging, transporting composite pole pieces to a flexible de-powdering...