ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,529, issued on March 25, was assigned to LILAC SOLUTIONS INC. (Oakland, Calif.).

"Lithium extraction enhanced by an alternate phase" was invented by David Henry Snydacker (San Francisco), Nicolas Andres Grosso Giordano (Oakland, Calif.), Amos Indranada (Oakland, Calif.), Alysia Lukito (Emeryville, Calif.), Sean Utan (Oakland, Calif.), Mustafa Juzer Bootwala (Oakland, Calif.), Daniel Keane Laporte (Menlo Park, Calif.), Andrew Bolt Barber (San Francisco), Christina Fleming (Naperville, Ill.) and Garrett Lau (Castro Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to the extraction of lithium from liquid reso...