US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Oct. 6 for "Electrochemical recycling of lithium from lithium-based materials" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,753,523, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Electrochemical recycling of lithium from lithium-based materials" was invented by Sayed Youssef Sayed Nagy (Troy, Mich.), Jeffrey David Cain (Royal Oak, Mich.), Nicholas Paul William Pieczonka (Windsor, Canada), Thomas E. Moylan (Dearborn Heights, Mich.) and Yuntao Gu (Farmington Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for extracting lithium from lithium-based materials to be recycled using an electrochemical reactor includes applying a voltage to a current collector at least partially disposed in an electrolyte carried by the electroc...