US Patent Issued to Kawasaki Jukogyo on July 22 for "System for and method of processing waste lithium-ion battery" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,596, issued on July 22, was assigned to Kawasaki Jukogyo K.K. (Kobe, Japan).

"System for and method of processing waste lithium-ion battery" was invented by Fuminori Ando (Kobe, Japan), Hiroaki Osawa (Kobe, Japan), Shoji Takada (Kobe, Japan), Chie Nakajima (Kobe, Japan), Mariko Yamashita (Kobe, Japan), Masahiro Sugata (Kobe, Japan), Koji Fukumoto (Kobe, Japan), Masaki Tsuzawa (Kobe, Japan) and Ryosuke Nagai (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for processing a waste lithium-ion battery includes: a first aqueous solution generator that includes a first elution tank storing water, and that immerses an active material ta...