US Patent Issued to SK INNOVATION on Feb. 3 for "Method for recovering active metal of lithium secondary battery" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,310, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to SK INNOVATION Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method for recovering active metal of lithium secondary battery" was invented by Hyeon Bae Ha (Daejeon, South Korea), Ji Min Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Sung Real Son (Daejeon, South Korea), Hyeon Jung Kim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Min Ji Sung (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method for recovering an active metal of a lithium secondary battery, a preliminary cathode active material mixture is prepared from a cathode of a waste lithium secondary battery, the preliminary cathode active material mixture is fluidized through oxyg...