ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,370, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to BYD Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).
"Method for extracting lithium from salt lake brine" was invented by Jialiang Wei (Shenzhen, China), Hongye Lin (Shenzhen, China) and Junlan Lian (Shenzhen, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a method for extracting lithium from salt lake brine, which includes: flowing the salt lake brine through a lithium adsorbent at a varying flow rate to obtain a lithium-rich adsorbent, where the lithium ions in the salt lake brine are adsorbed on the lithium adsorbent, and where during the adsorption process, the flow rate of the salt lake bri...