ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,385, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to eJoule Inc. (Fremont, Calif.).

"Materials and methods of producing lithium cobalt oxide materials of a battery cell" was invented by Haixia Deng (Fremont, Calif.), Shengfeng Liu (Newark, Calif.), Min-Duan Liu (Bethany, Conn.), Mengchen Liu (Union City, Calif.) and Liang-Yuh Chen (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various lithium cobalt oxides materials having a chemical formula of Lix Coy Oz, and method and apparatus of producing the various lithium cobalt oxides materials are provided. The method includes adjusting a molar ratio MLiSalt:MCoSalt of a lithium-containing salt, and a...