US Patent Issued to YOUNG POONG on July 15 for "Method for recovering lithium from a waste lithium secondary battery using a pyrometallugical process" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,280, issued on July 15, was assigned to YOUNG POONG Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method for recovering lithium from a waste lithium secondary battery using a pyrometallugical process" was invented by Nam Il Moon (Ulsan, South Korea), Ho Jo Lee (Gunsan-si, South Korea) and Eung Bae Kim (Cheonan-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method for recovering lithium from a waste lithium secondary battery using a pyrometallurgical smelting method, which comprises a step for melting a waste lithium secondary battery containing nickel, cobalt, copper, and lithium, a flux having a melting temperature...