US Patent Issued to Li Industries on Dec. 9 for "Systems and methods for removal and recycling of aluminum impurities from battery waste" (South Carolina, North Carolina, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,523, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Li Industries Inc. (Pineville, N.C.).

"Systems and methods for removal and recycling of aluminum impurities from battery waste" was invented by David Young (Sudbury, Mass.), Tairan Yang (Indian Land, S.C.), Panni Zheng (Charlotte, N.C.) and Zheng Li (Charlotte, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein relate to removal of aluminum impurities from battery waste. In some aspects, a method for removing aluminum impurities includes preprocessing a quantity of battery waste to improve removal of aluminum impurities from the quantity of battery waste. The method further includes...