ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,768,007, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to THE SECRETARY, MINISTRY OF ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, GOVT. OF INDIA (New-Delhi, India) and THE DIRECTOR GENERAL, CENTRE FOR MATERIALS FOR ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY (C-MET) (Pune, India).

"Method for recovery of metals and metal alloys from waste lithium-ion batteries" was invented by Rajesh Kumar Sivasankaran Nair (Pune, India), Ajay Kaushal (Pune, India), Amit Barnwal (Pune, India), Sandip Chatterjee (New-Delhi, India) and Ratheesh Ravendran (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a method for the recovery of metals and metal alloys from waste L...