US Patent Issued to Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources on Aug. 5 for "Method for recovering lithium from brine" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,638, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Method for recovering lithium from brine" was invented by In Su Park (Gyeryong-si, South Korea), Hye-Jin Hong (Daejeon, South Korea), Chang-Youl Suh (Daejeon, South Korea), Sukjoon Park (Cheongju-si, South Korea) and Myunggyu Lee (Namyangju-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method for recovering lithium from brine, and provides a method for recovering lithium from brine, the method comprising: (a) an impurity removal step of adding a carbonate supply source to brine includi...