US Patent Issued to Battelle Memorial Institute, Albemarie on Aug. 25 for "Cost effective synthesis of oxide materials for lithium ion batteries" (Washington, North Carolina, South Carolina, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,783, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Wash.) and Albemarie Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Cost effective synthesis of oxide materials for lithium ion batteries" was invented by Jie Xiao (Richland, Wash.), Ran Yi (Richland, Wash.), Yujing Bi (Richland, Wash.), Job T. Rijssenbeek (Lake Wylie, S.C.), Xiaoguang Hao (Fremont, Calif.), Subramanian Venkatachalam (Charlotte, N.C.) and Liu Luo (Belmont, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for synthesizing crystalline Ni-rich cathode materials are disclosed. The Ni-rich cathode material may have a formula LiNiXMnyMzCo1-x-y-zO2, where M represents one...