ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,056, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Epsilon Carbon Private Ltd. (Mumbai, India).

"Lithium metal phosphate, its preparation and use" was invented by Christian Bruenig (Reading, Great Britain), Noelia Cabello (Reading, Great Britain), James Cookson (Reading, Great Britain), Mark Copley (Reading, Great Britain) and Andreas Laumann (Reading, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides carbon-coated lithium metal phosphate which is doped with aluminium such that the aluminium content is between 300 and 5000 ppm and which has a BET surface area of less than or equal to 15 m2/g. The carbon-coated lithium ...