US Patent Issued to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY on Oct. 21 for "Lithium recovery using aqueous sources" (Texas, California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,418, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Lithium recovery using aqueous sources" was invented by Gary W. Sams (Houston), Dominic Vincent Perroni (Sugar Land, Texas), Prasanna Nirgudkar (Sugar Land, Texas), Florence Binet (Houston), Rod William Shampine (Sugar Land, Texas), Sandeep Verma (Cambridge, Mass.) and Wenlin Zhang (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are methods of recovering lithium from dilute lithium sources. The methods include concentrating a dilute aqueous lithium source to yield an extraction feed having an extraction lithium concentratio...