US Patent Issued to Li-Cycle on July 29 for "Process, apparatus, and system for recovering materials from batteries" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,557, issued on July 29, was assigned to Li-Cycle Corp. (Toronto).

"Process, apparatus, and system for recovering materials from batteries" was invented by Ajay Kochhar (Oakville, Canada) and Timothy George Johnston (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for recovering materials from a black mass material obtained from lithium-ion batteries can include: i) conveying a black mass material as a black mass solid stream; ii) leaching the black mass solid stream to form a pregnant leach solution and residual solids; iii) separating the pregnant leach solution from the residual solids; iv) isolating a copper product from the preg...