ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,227,857, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Tesla Inc. (Austin, Texas).
"Metal sulfate manufacturing system via electrochemical dissolution" was invented by Shinji Arimoto (San Jose, Calif.), Mikel Dermer (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Zhiwen Sun (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A metal sulfate manufacturing system comprising an electrochemical dissolution system having, an anode electrode that holds metal raw material, a cathode electrode, an electrolyte bath having an inlet to receive an initial acid or metal-acid complex solution and an outlet to discharge the treated metal sulfate solution, stirring equipment that mixes t...