ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,803, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to AMRITA VISHWA VIDYAPEETHAM (Kerala, India).

"Regeneration of electrodes by recycling spent rechargeable lithium batteries" was invented by Dhamodaran Santhanagopalan (Kerala, India), Shantikumar Nair (Kerala, India) and Binitha Gangaja (Kerala, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a rechargeable battery and a process near zero-energy regeneration of electrodes by recycling spent rechargeable batteries. The present invention relates to a process for near zero-energy regeneration of lithium iron phosphate (LiFePO4) or sodium iron phosphate (NaFePO4) cathode by rec...