Cobalt

7 patent families, 4 with an Indian applicant, and 2 funded project(s) in the Ministry of Mines S&T list. On the India critical-minerals list. Counts are lower bounds.

Stages

Recycling / secondary sources: 6
Hydrometallurgy (leaching, solvent extraction): 3
Ore preparation / agglomeration: 3
Beneficiation / separation: 1

Most active applicants

Attero Recycling: 2
Vale Sa: 1
Wuhan Kaidi Eng Tech Res Inst: 1
Sunshine Kaidi New Energy Group Co Ltd: 1
Shastry Ravi: 1
Metastable Materials: 1

Funded projects

Preparation of 99 percent pure nickel-cobalt alloy and Ferronickel 66Fe 31Ni from waste batteries and recovery of Rare Earth Elements in the form of oxides · SNTMOM/1162/2024 · Approved with Modification
End to End Technology Development and Scale-up (TRL-7) for Cobalt Recovery, Cobalt alloy and components for Bio-Medical Applications · SNTMOM/545/2021 · Approved without Modification

Patent families

(no English title in the source record)IN-2012DN00702-A · 2015 · Vale Sa
(no English title in the source record)IN-2014MN01922-A · 2015 · Wuhan Kaidi Eng Tech Res Inst
(no English title in the source record)IN-2014MN01923-A · 2015 · Sunshine Kaidi New Energy Group Co Ltd
Process for recovery of pure cobalt oxide from spent lithium ion batteries with high manganese contentWO-2017145099-A1 · 2017 · Attero Recycling
Process for recovering pure cobalt and nickel from spent lithium batteriesWO-2018047147-A1 · 2018 · Attero Recycling
Apparatus and method for recycling lithium cobalt oxide batteriesWO-2023026306-A1 · 2023 · Shastry Ravi
System and method for extraction of lithium, cobalt and aluminium from active material of lithium-ion batteryWO-2026047775-A1 · 2026 · Metastable Materials