US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITE DE ROUEN-NORMANDIE, INSTITUT NATIONAL DES SCIENCES APPLIQUEES DE ROUEN, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, ECOLE NATIONALE SUPERIEURE D'INGENIEURS DE CAEN, UNIVERSITE DE CAEN NORMANDIE on June 23 for "Process of extraction of lithium from a material comprising lithium and at least another metal" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,718, issued on June 23, was assigned to UNIVERSITE DE ROUEN-NORMANDIE (Mont-Saint-Aignan, France), INSTITUT NATIONAL DES SCIENCES APPLIQUEES DE ROUEN (Saint-Etienne du Rouvray, France), CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (Paris), ECOLE NATIONALE SUPERIEURE D'INGENIEURS DE CAEN (Caen, France) and UNIVERSITE DE CAEN NORMANDIE (Caen, France).

"Process of extraction of lithium from a material comprising lithium and at least another metal" was invented by Firas Ayadi (Rouen, France), Virginie Nachbaur (Terres de Bord, France) and Valerie Pralong (Caen, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Lithium is extracted from a material co...