ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,760, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to ENEVATE Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).
"Silicon particles for battery electrodes" was invented by Benjamin Yong Park (Mission Viejo, Calif.), Jill R. Pestana (Huntington Beach, Calif.), Xiaohua Liu (Irvine, Calif.) and Frederic Bonhomme (Foothill Ranch, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Silicon particles for use in an electrode in an electrochemical cell are provided. The silicon particles may have outer regions extending about 20 nm deep from the surfaces, the outer regions comprising an amount of aluminum such that a bulk measurement of the aluminum comprises at least about 0.01% by weight of th...