US Patent Issued to A123 SYSTEMS on June 23 for "Methods and systems for a lithium-ion battery cell cathode" (American, Chinese, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,182, issued on June 23, was assigned to A123 SYSTEMS LLC (Novi, Mich.).

"Methods and systems for a lithium-ion battery cell cathode" was invented by Linghong Zhang (St. Paul, Minn.), Xiangyang Zhu (Waltham, Mass.), Taehwan Yu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Fanqun Li (Hangzhou, China), Yang Chen (Windsor, Canada) and Xiaochong Zhou (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for a lithium-ion battery cell are disclosed. In one example, a method for forming a cathode for a lithium-ion battery cell includes forming a pre-lithiated cathode with a pre-lithiation reagent and positioning the pre-lithiated cathode in contact ...