US Patent Issued to VERDEEN CHEMICALS on Sept. 22 for "Bipolar electrolyzer" (Singaporean, American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,251, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to VERDEEN CHEMICALS INC. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Bipolar electrolyzer" was invented by Vipin Tyagi (Bellevue, Wash.), Amol Harishchandra Naik (Mumbai, India) and Nishchay Chadha (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are solutions for the recovery of elemental metals at industrial scales without smelting including, for example, the recovery of near-pure lead from recycled LABs via specialized electrolytic processing. Further disclosed are new processes, innovative electrolyzer designs, and/or novel utilization of supplemental chemicals necessary for successful electrolysis of pure meta...