US Patent Issued to BASF on April 21 for "Impurity removal from an intermediate product obtained from Ca/Na/Li hypochlorite delithiation process" (Ohio, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,310, issued on April 21, was assigned to BASF Corp. (Florham Park, N.J.).

"Impurity removal from an intermediate product obtained from Ca/Na/Li hypochlorite delithiation process" was invented by Tinoush Dinn (Beachwood, Ohio), Dieter G. Von Deak (Solon, Ohio), William C. Mays (Southfield, Mich.) and Martin Lawrence Panchula (Beachwood, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a process for removing impurities from an intermediate product in battery material production including a) contacting a first intermediate product with a first aqueous medium to obtain a second intermediate product; and b) contacting the second intermed...