US Patent Issued to Reed Advanced Materials on July 15 for "Processing of lithium containing brines" (Australian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,805, issued on July 15, was assigned to Reed Advanced Materials Pty Ltd. (West Perth, Australia).

"Processing of lithium containing brines" was invented by Yatendra Sharma (Hillarys, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method (10) for the processing of lithium containing brines, the method comprising the method steps of: (i) Passing a lithium containing brine (12) to a filtration step (14) to remove sulphates; (ii) Passing a product (16) of step (i) to a first ion exchange step (18) to remove divalent impurities; (iii) Passing a product (20) of step (ii) to a second ion exchange step (22) to remove boron impurities; (iv) Passi...