US Patent Issued to SK INNOVATION on Jan. 28 for "Method for recovering active metal of lithium secondary battery" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,979, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to SK INNOVATION Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method for recovering active metal of lithium secondary battery" was invented by Young Bin Seo (Daejeon, South Korea), Min Ji Sung (Daejeon, South Korea), Ji Min Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Seung Ok Lee (Daejeon, South Korea) and In Ae Lee (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method for recovering active metals of a lithium secondary battery according to an embodiment, a cathode active material mixture is collected from the cathode of the lithium secondary battery, the cathode active material mixture is reduced by a reducing rea...