US Patent Issued to Ascend Elements on May 5 for "Recycling all solid-state batteries (ASSBs) and anode recovery" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,620,643, issued on May 5, was assigned to Ascend Elements Inc. (Westborough, Mass.).

"Recycling all solid-state batteries (ASSBs) and anode recovery" was invented by Eric Gratz (Worcester, Mass.) and Yan Wang (Acton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for recycling All solid state batteries (ASSBs), the method including: receiving a recycling stream of ASSBs comprising an electrolyte comingled with at least one charge material; introducing a passivating substance for neutralizing an undesired reaction or discharge of the charge materials from the batteries defining the recycling stream; agitating the batteries in the recycling s...