ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,893, issued on April 14, was assigned to QINGHAI INSTITUTE OF SALT LAKES, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (Xining, China).
"Spherical lithium adsorbent as well as preparation method and use thereof" was invented by Min Wang (Xining, China), Xiaofei Lv (Xining, China) and Huaiyou Wang (Xining, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spherical lithium adsorbent, as well as a preparation method and use thereof are provided. The preparation method includes: dry mixing an adsorbent and a forming agent followed by evenly mixing with a first solvent to form a mixed solution, and adding a thickening and pore forming agent to obtain a mixed syste...