US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO METAL MINING. on March 31 for "Producing method of granulated body for lithium adsorption" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,380, issued on March 31, was assigned to SUMITOMO METAL MINING. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Producing method of granulated body for lithium adsorption" was invented by Shin-ya Matsumoto (Niihama, Japan), Yohei Kudo (Niihama, Japan), Masatoshi Takano (Niihama, Japan), Shin-ichi Heguri (Niihama, Japan) and Satoshi Asano (Niihama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A producing method of granulated body for lithium adsorption that allows sufficiently suppressing a manganese elution in an eluting step when producing lithium on a commercial basis, includes a kneading step of kneading a powder of a lithium adsorbent precursor and a binder to obtain a...