Lithium; lithium brine in the nature of battery manufacturing (term considered too vague by the International Bureau pursuant to Rule 13 (2) (b) of the Regulations).

Equipment in the nature of components being parts for lithium mining, extraction, processing, recovery, and recycling machines, comprising nanofiltration membranes, reverse osmosis membranes, thermal concentration equipment in the nature of thermal evaporators, thermal desalination equipment for processes such as humidification, dehumidification, multistage flash, multi-effect evaporation, and mechanical vapor recompression, crystallizers in the nature of evaporative crystallizers namely, agitated thin film dryers, forced circulation crystallizers, fluidized bed crystallizers, and cooling crystallizers for crystallizing lithium salts and impurities commonly found in lithium brines, namely carbonates, sulfates, magnesium, and calcium, chemical reactors, pumps, filters, presses, reaction tanks and clarifiers in the nature of rectangular clarifier and lamella clarifiers used for settling solids from brines containing ions commonly used in batteries (term considered too vague by the International Bureau pursuant to Rule 13 (2) (b) of the Regulations).