US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO METAL MINING on May 6 for "Method for manufacturing nickel and cobalt-containing solution from hydroxide containing nickel and cobalt" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,762, issued on May 6, was assigned to SUMITOMO METAL MINING Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Method for manufacturing nickel and cobalt-containing solution from hydroxide containing nickel and cobalt" was invented by Hideki Ohara (Niihama, Japan), Shota Sanjo (Niihama, Japan), Masatoshi Takano (Niihama, Japan), Satoshi Asano (Niihama, Japan), Hiroshi Kobayashi (Niihama, Japan), Yusuke Senba (Niihama, Japan) and Hiroto Watanabe (Niihama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing a cobalt-nickel-containing solution including: preparing a crude nickel hydroxide and/or a crude cobalt hydroxide as a starting material, the crude nic...