US Patent Issued to Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies Support on March 25 for "Method for concentrating and purifying eluate brine for the production of a purified lithium compound" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,280, issued on March 25, was assigned to Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies Support (Saint-Maurice, France).

"Method for concentrating and purifying eluate brine for the production of a purified lithium compound" was invented by Bernard Roy Mack (Natick, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is disclosed for concentrating and purifying an eluate brine and producing a purified lithium compound. An extraction eluate, rich in lithium, is directed to a nanofiltration unit or a softening process that removes sulfate and/or calcium and magnesium. Permeate from the nanofiltration unit or the effluent from the softening process i...