ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,729, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method for reusing active material by using positive electrode scrap" was invented by Se-Ho Park (Daejeon, South Korea), Min-Seo Kim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Doo-Kyung Yang (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a method for collecting and reusing an active material from positive electrode scrap. The positive electrode active material reuse method of the present disclosure includes (a) thermally treating positive electrode scrap comprising a lithium cobalt oxide positive electrode active material layer on a curre...