US Patent Issued to LG Energy Solution on April 14 for "Active material recovery method using positive electrode scrap" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,338, issued on April 14, was assigned to LG Energy Solution Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Active material recovery method using positive electrode scrap" was invented by Min-Seo Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Se-Ho Park (Daejeon, South Korea) and Doo-Kyung Yang (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of recovering an active material from a positive electrode scrap and reusing the active material is provided. The method includes (a) heat treating a positive electrode scrap including a positive electrode active material layer on a current collector in air to thermally decompose a binder and a conductive material in th...