ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,546, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to GUANGDONG BRUNP RECYCLING TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Foshan, China), HUNAN BRUNP RECYCLING TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Changhsha, China) and HUNAN BRUNP EV RECYCLING Co. LTD. (Changsha, China).

"Method for recovering lithium from waste lithium iron phosphate (LFP) material" was invented by Yanchao Qiao (Foshan, China), Ruokui Chen (Foshan, China), Dingshan Ruan (Foshan, China), Feng Tan (Foshan, China), Xie Sun (Foshan, China), Xianliang Zheng (Foshan, China) and Changdong Li (Foshan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure discloses a method for recovering lithium from a waste LFP material, incl...