US Patent Issued to VULCAN ENERGIE RESSOURCEN on Sept. 30 for "System and process for direct lithium extraction and production of low carbon intensity lithium chemicals from geothermal brines" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,307, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to VULCAN ENERGIE RESSOURCEN GMBH (Karlsruhe, Germany).

"System and process for direct lithium extraction and production of low carbon intensity lithium chemicals from geothermal brines" was invented by Francis Wedin (Karlsruhe, Germany) and Alexander Grant (Karlsruhe, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and process for direct lithium extraction from geothermal brines, and more particular to the sequential combination of a binary cycle geothermal plant, a direct lithium extraction circuit, a lithium chloride concentration and purification circuit, and a lithium battery chemical proce...