US Patent Issued to NISSAN NORTH AMERICA, Michigan Technological University on Feb. 24 for "Direct recycling method for lithium-ion batteries" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,367, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to NISSAN NORTH AMERICA INC. (Franklin, Tenn.) and Michigan Technological University (Houghton, Mich.).

"Direct recycling method for lithium-ion batteries" was invented by Lei Pan (Houghton, Mich.), Tinuade O. Folayan (Houghton, Mich.), Kulwinder Dhindsa (Westland, Mich.) and Dianne Atienza Hay (Hartland, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for producing a cathode active material. The method includes shredding an anode sheet including an anode material disposed on an anode current collector with a cathode sheet including a cathode material disposed on a cathode current collec...