MUMBAI, India, April 17 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202611007189 A) filed by Batx Energies Private Limited, Gurugram, Haryana, on Jan. 24, for 'automated system and method for recovery of metals from spent lithium-ion batteries.'

Inventor(s) include Vikrant Singh.

The application for the patent was published on April 17, under issue no. 16/2026.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "An automated system (102) for recovery of lithium, cobalt, nickel and manganese from spent lithium-ion batteries comprising a thermal pretreatment unit (104) configured to decompose electrolyte salts at a first temperature and to perform carbothermic reduction at a second temperature in ...