US Patent Issued to Ascend Elements on June 23 for "Cascading co-precipitation system" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,392, issued on June 23, was assigned to Ascend Elements Inc. (Westborough, Mass.).

"Cascading co-precipitation system" was invented by Jong Hyun Shim (Westborough, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hydrometallurgical coprecipitation process for leached cathode materials includes adjusting a pH and agitation of an aqueous acidic leach solution in successive stages of a multi-stage reactor system for generating coprecipitated particles of a targeted morphology, particle size range, and surface characteristics. The aqueous acidic leach solution (leach solution) initially forms seed particles based on increasing pH. In successive st...