US Patent Issued to A123 SYSTEMS on Feb. 17 for "Passivated lithium nitride as cathode pre-lithiation reagent" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,796, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to A123 SYSTEMS LLC (Novi, Mich.).

"Passivated lithium nitride as cathode pre-lithiation reagent" was invented by Linghong Zhang (Waltham, Mass.), Derrick Maxwell (Maynard, Mass.), Shaocheng Hu (Waltham, Mass.), Claire Whitaker (Pittsfield, Mass.), Wilbur Zuo (Waltham, Mass.), Jun Wang (Shrewsbury, Mass.) and Taehwan Yu (Burlington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for passivating lithium nitride (Li3N) for use in a lithium-ion battery as a cathode pre-lithiation reagent. In one example, the cathode pre-lithiation reagent may include a core particle composed of...