US Patent Issued to BYD on May 12 for "Lithium adsorbent and method for lithium extraction from salt lake" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,201, issued on May 12, was assigned to BYD Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Lithium adsorbent and method for lithium extraction from salt lake" 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: "A lithium adsorbent includes an aluminum-based adsorbing material, a binder, and a wetting and dispersing agent. The binder includes at least one of a vinylidene fluoride-chlorotrifluoroethylene (VDF-CTFE) copolymer and a fluoroolefin-vinyl ether copolymer. The wetting and dispersing agent includes one or more of polyethylene glycol, sodium polyacrylate, poly...