US Patent Issued to Enevate on Aug. 11 for "Recycling silicon from batteries with silicon-based active materials" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,332, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Enevate Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Recycling silicon from batteries with silicon-based active materials" was invented by Xiang Li (Irvine, Calif.), Heidi Anderson (Newport Beach, Calif.) and Benjamin Yong Park (Mission Viejo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of recycling silicon from lithium-ion batteries having silicon-based electrodes are disclosed. Batteries and methods of manufacturing batteries from the recycled silicon are also disclosed. A method of recycling may include discharging each of one or more batteries to below a threshold voltage and disassembling each of the one or...