ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,233, issued on June 23, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method for recycling positive electrode material" was invented by Jeong Bae Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Young Joo Choi (Daejeon, South Korea) and Jeong Kyu Kim (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for recycling a positive electrode material. the method includes obtaining positive electrode material particles from a positive electrode. The method further includes mixing the positive electrode material particles with a solution or powder containing sodium ions and heat-treating the mixture including the positive electrode mat...