US Patent Issued to Li Industries on Jan. 13 for "Smart systems and methods for identification and processing of spent lithium cells" (North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,766, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Li Industries Inc. (Pineville, N.C.).

"Smart systems and methods for identification and processing of spent lithium cells" was invented by David Young (Boston), Xu Han (Merion Station, Pa.), Zheng Li (Charlotte, N.C.) and Panni Zheng (Charlotte, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes using machine learning to classify and sort energy storage devices based on at least one of the detected chemical or physical properties. In some embodiments, the method can include irradiating an energy storage device with an input radiation and detecting the output radiation reflected or backscatte...