ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,612, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to SUNRESIN NEW MATERIALS Co. LTD. (Shaanxi, China).

"Lithium-sodium separation method" was invented by Jia Yu (Shaanxi, China), Fumin Guo (Shaanxi, China), Suidang Li (Shaanxi, China), Qiong Liu (Shaanxi, China) and Xiaokang Kou (Shaanxi, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a new continuous lithium-sodium separation method. A lithium-sodium separation mother solution, a first leacheate, a desorption solution, a second leacheate and a lithium-sodium separation adsorption tail solution respectively pass through a lithium-sodium separation mother solution feeding pipe (2), a first leac...