US Patent Issued to Albemarle on Feb. 17 for "Processes for extracting metals from lithium-ion batteries" (North Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,108, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Albemarle Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Processes for extracting metals from lithium-ion batteries" was invented by Nan Ding (Charlotte, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processes are described for extracting metals from a combination derived from spent lithium-ion batteries and comprising such metals, a liquid, an acid, and other components."

The patent was filed on Oct. 25, 2019, under Application No. 17/286,289.

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