US Patent Issued to RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY on Nov. 25 for "Method of extracting lithium from lithium-containing solution" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,180, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY (Pohang-si, South Korea).

"Method of extracting lithium from lithium-containing solution" was invented by Woo Chul Jung (Pohang-si, South Korea), Woonkyoung Park (Pohang-si, South Korea) and Kiyoung Kim (Pohang-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of extracting lithium from a lithium-containing solution according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes: obtaining a lithium chloride solution from the lithium-containing solution; and crystallizing and removing sodium chloride in the obtained lithium chlo...