US Patent Issued to Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences on May 19 for "Method for lithium extraction by leaching from spodumene and desulfurization" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,901, issued on May 19, was assigned to Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Beijing).

"Method for lithium extraction by leaching from spodumene and desulfurization" was invented by Huiquan Li (Beijing), Jianbo Zhang (Beijing), Chennian Yang (Beijing), Wenfen Wu (Beijing), Chenye Wang (Beijing) and Zhenhua Sun (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for lithium extraction by leaching from spodumene and desulfurization is provided. The method includes: extracting lithium by leaching from spodumene to obtain lithium leaching solution and spodumene smelting slag; performing desulfurization on the spodume...