Intellectual Property India Publishes Patent Application for Processes For Recovering Lithium Values From Lithium-Containing Brines

MUMBAI, India, Oct. 26 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202617091016 A) filed by Albemarle Corporation on July 27, 2026, for Processes For Recovering Lithium Values From Lithium-Containing Brines.

Inventors include Dupont, Jesse; Leblanc, Jeffrey Ross; Shah, Keyur; and Talreja, Sameer.

The application for the patent was published on October 23, 2026, under issue no. 43/2026.

Abstract: Producing high purity lithium solution from a source brine containing at least 1 mg Li/kg brine, preferably 10 mg/kg, more preferably 25 mg Li/kg brine; treating the source brine, if necessary in pretreatment steps; processing the treated brine in a lithium adsorption step; after the adsorption step, desorbing the adsorbed ...