ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,692, issued on March 3, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Active material separation device" was invented by Masafumi Saito (Tokyo) and Shigeto Akahori (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An active material separation device according to an embodiment of the present invention is an active material separation device configured to separate an active material from a battery member, which includes a container, a base member disposed in the container and configured to support the battery member, and a nozzle disposed above the container and configured to inject a liquid with respect to the battery member, and the nozz...