US Patent Issued to East China University of Science and Technology on Feb. 17 for "Method and electrochemical system for recycling spent lithium-ion battery" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,142, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to East China University of Science and Technology (Shanghai).

"Method and electrochemical system for recycling spent lithium-ion battery" was invented by Shuai Gu (Shanghai), Tongtong Fu (Shanghai), Zirui Guo (Shanghai) and Jianguo Yu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses a method for recycling a spent lithium-ion battery, including the following steps: sandwiching a cathode of the spent lithium-ion battery with a conductive acid-resistant material as a cathode of a primary battery system; sandwiching an anode of the spent lithium-ion battery with a conductive a...