ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,076, issued on April 14, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).
"Impurity control in lithium recovery" was invented by Dominic Vincent Perroni (Sugar Land, Texas), Florence Binet (Houston), Prasanna Nirgudkar (Sugar Land, Texas) and Rod William Shampine (Sugar Land, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are methods of recovering lithium from aqueous sources. The methods include extracting lithium from an aqueous lithium source using an extraction stage to yield a lithium intermediate; routing the lithium intermediate to a concentration stage to yield a lithium concentrate; and adjusting pa...