ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,379, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to GUANGDONG BRUNP RECYCLING TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Foshan, China), HUNAN BRUNP RECYCLING TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Changsha, China) and HUNAN BRUNP EV RECYCLING Co. LTD. (Changsha, China).

"Wet process for recovering valuable metals from lithium battery" was invented by Yinghao Xie (Foshan, China), Haijun Yu (Foshan, China), Aixia Li (Foshan, China), Xuemei Zhang (Foshan, China) and Changdong Li (Foshan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure discloses a wet process for recovering valuable metals from a lithium battery. In the method, a waste lithium battery powder is subjected to s...