ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,368, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to TERRALITHIUM LLC (Houston).

"Processes for producing lithium compounds using reverse osmosis" was invented by Stephen Harrison (Benicia, Calif.) and Brian J. Dougherty (Emeryville, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are methods of extracting lithium from a lithium containing solution, as well as the resulting compositions. The method includes supplying a lithium containing solution to a lithium capture step, the lithium capture step being operable to capture lithium from the lithium salt containing solution. The method further includes recovering lithium from the lithium capture step ...