US Patent Issued to LG ENERGY SOLUTION on June 24 for "Active material reuse method using cathode scrap" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,168, issued on June 24, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Active material reuse method using cathode scrap" was invented by Se-Ho Park (Daejeon, South Korea), Min-Seo Kim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Doo-Kyung Yang (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a method for collecting and reusing an active material from positive electrode scrap. The positive electrode active material reuse method of the present disclosure includes (a) thermally treating positive electrode scrap comprising a lithium composite transition metal oxide positive electrode active material layer on a current...