US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO METAL MINING on June 23 for "Method for producing lithium-containing solution" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,389, issued on June 23, was assigned to SUMITOMO METAL MINING Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Method for producing lithium-containing solution" was invented by Osamu Ikeda (Niihama, Japan), Masatoshi Takano (Niihama, Japan), Satoshi Asano (Niihama, Japan), Shin-ichi Heguri (Niihama, Japan), Shin-ya Matsumoto (Niihama, Japan), Yohei Kudo (Niihama, Japan), Yusuke Senba (Niihama, Japan) and Kyohei Maeda (Niihama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method for producing a lithium-containing solution that allows increasing a content rate of lithium in a solution after an eluting step, and suppressing an amount of an eluted solution used...