US Patent Issued to Montanuniversitat Leoben on Sept. 15 for "Apparatus and process for thermal treatment of raw material containing lithium compounds and phosphorus compounds, method of recovering lithium and/or phosphorus from residue material of lithium-ion batteries" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,764, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Montanuniversitat Leoben (Leoben, Austria).

"Apparatus and process for thermal treatment of raw material containing lithium compounds and phosphorus compounds, method of recovering lithium and/or phosphorus from residue material of lithium-ion batteries" was invented by Harald Raupenstrauch (St. Radegund bei Graz/Rinnegg, Austria), Stefan Windisch (Leoben, Austria), Christoph Ponak (Graz, Austria), Valentin Mally (Leoben, Austria), Alexandra Holzer (Neuberg/Murz, Austria) and Andreas Schonberg (Graz, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an apparatus for ther...