US Patent Issued to Gelion Technologies on Aug. 18 for "Selective recovery of Li" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,709,786, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Gelion Technologies Pty Ltd. (Australia).

"Selective recovery of Li" was invented by Koen Vandaele (Reading, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for selectively removing Li from an input material comprising Li and one or more transition metals, comprising the steps of: contacting said input material with a leaching medium comprising formic acid; and leaching Li from the input material to form a leachate; wherein the concentration of formic acid in the leaching medium is at least 70 wt. %."

The patent was filed on Sept. 20, 2021, under Application No. 18/032,007.

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