US Patent Issued to SK INNOVATION on Nov. 18 for "Method for recovering active metal of lithium secondary battery" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,292, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to SK INNOVATION Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method for recovering active metal of lithium secondary battery" was invented by Suk Joon Hong (Daejeon, South Korea), Hyeon Jung Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Sung Real Son (Daejeon, South Korea), Dong Wook Ha (Daejeon, South Korea), Ji Min Kim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Ji Yun Park (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method of recovering an active metal of a lithium secondary battery, a cathode active material mixture is prepared from a waste cathode of a lithium secondary. The cathode active material mixture is reacted with a ...