US Patent Issued to EMPOWER INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY on May 19 for "Lithium ion adsorbents" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,629,657, issued on May 19, was assigned to EMPOWER INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY LLC (Addison, Texas).

"Lithium ion adsorbents" was invented by Jackson Frantz (Calgary, Canada), Majid Rasool (Calgary, Canada), Michael Mislan (Calgary, Canada) and Preston McEachern (Calgary, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lithium ion sorbent includes an organosilane-grafted lithium ion sieve. The organosilane-grafted lithium ion sieve is a reaction product of a lithium ion sieve and an organosilane. The lithium ion sieve is either a delithiated orthosilicate or a delithiated metal oxide. The organosilane reagent is of the general formula: R1-(CH2)n-Si-R...