ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,655,498, issued on June 16, was assigned to Tenova Advanced Technologies Ltd. (Yokneam, Israel).
"Process for producing lithium salts" was invented by Mark Stephen Jablonka (Rehovot, Israel), Ziv Dee Noor (Haifa, Israel) and Hani Aharon (Nesher, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for producing a purified aqueous lithium (sulfate) solution including: processing a lithium-containing raw material to produce a crude aqueous solution containing lithium sulfate; contacting the crude solution with an organic medium, in an extraction step to produce a lithium-loaded organic medium and a raffinate; stripping said lithium-loaded organ...