	US 12,012,644 B2
	Collocating a large-scale dissociating reactor near a geothermal energy source for producing green lithium from brines
Michael Stowell, Sunnyvale, CA (US); and Bruce Gittleman, Centennial, CO (US)
Assigned to LYTEN, INC., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed by Lyten, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed on Sep. 7, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/243,589.
Application 18/243,589 is a continuation of application No. 18/110,834, filed on Feb. 16, 2023, granted, now 11,761,057.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/329,208, filed on Apr. 8, 2022.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/324,379, filed on Mar. 28, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0416875 A1, Dec. 28, 2023
Int. Cl. C22B 26/12 (2006.01)

CPC C22B 26/12 (2013.01)

26 Claims

1. A method for refining one or more critical minerals, using a dissociating reactor, the method comprising:

separating, using a selective membrane, at least some input materials from one another;

receiving, at the dissociating reactor, at least some of the separated input materials;

dissociating, using the dissociating reactor, at least some of the one or more separated input materials into a plurality of dissociated species, wherein the dissociated species comprise at least one refined critical mineral; and

collecting the at least one refined critical mineral.