US Patent Issued to SK INNOVATION on June 30 for "Fluidized bed reactor and method for recovering active metal of lithium secondary battery using same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,122, issued on June 30, was assigned to SK INNOVATION Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Fluidized bed reactor and method for recovering active metal of lithium secondary battery using same" was invented by Sung Real Son (Daejeon, South Korea) and Haeng Goo Kang (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 according to an embodiment, a waste cathode active material mixture is prepared from a waste cathode of a lithium secondary battery. A preliminary precursor mixture is formed by reacting the waste cathode active material mixture with a reactive gas in a ...