US Patent Issued to ILiAD IP on April 21 for "Process and circuit for direct lithium extraction" (Michigan, California, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,886, issued on April 21, was assigned to ILiAD IP Co. LLC (Carlsbad, Calif.).

"Process and circuit for direct lithium extraction" was invented by Charles R. Marston (Midland, Mich.), Aaron Philip Poon (Tustin, Calif.), Brenda Henderson (Yuma, Ariz.), Saul Andres Lopez Ortiz (Herber, Calif.) and Tristan Kareem Torres (Calexico, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process and circuit for direct lithium extraction (DLE) from natural or synthetic lithium-bearing solutions is disclosed, utilizing an alumina-based lithium selective adsorbent. The process circuit employs a monovalent salt wash solution, such as sodium chloride (NaCl) o...