US Patent Issued to METALLON CLEAN EXTRACTIONS on July 21 for "Process with low environmental impact and reduced energy consumption for the recovery of lead from the electrode pastes of end-of-life batteries" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,074, issued on July 21, was assigned to METALLON CLEAN EXTRACTIONS B.V. (Rotterdam, Netherlands).

"Process with low environmental impact and reduced energy consumption for the recovery of lead from the electrode pastes of end-of-life batteries" was invented by Giovanni Modica (Milan) and Arturo Sommariva (Salsomaggiore Terme, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for obtaining metallic lead from its compounds present in an end-of-life lead-acid battery through a direct solid-solid reaction with metallic zinc includes a) dry mixing of the mixture of lead compounds present in an end-of-life lead-acid battery with a metered qua...