US Patent Issued to A123 SYSTEMS on May 12 for "Electrode with flame retardant additives and method and systems for preparation and use" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,926, issued on May 12, was assigned to A123 SYSTEMS LLC (Novi, Mich.).

"Electrode with flame retardant additives and method and systems for preparation and use" was invented by Lixin Wang (Belmont, Mass.), Weidong Zhou (Winchester, Mass.), Yao Chen (Hangzhou, China), Chloe Harrison (Billerica, Mass.), Fu Zhou (Sichuan, China), Kitae Kim (Cambridge, Mass.), Jun Wang (Shrewbury, Mass.) and Derek C. Johnson (Fort Collins, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for an electrode active material for lithium ion batteries. In one example, the electrode active material may include a lithium mixed metal oxide cor...