US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on July 14 for "Lithium and manganese rich positive active material compositions" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,158, issued on July 14, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Lithium and manganese rich positive active material compositions" was invented by Eunsung Lee (Novi, Mich.), Chi Paik (Grosse Ile, Mich.), Jason Aaron Lupescu (Wayne, Mich.), Yisun Cheng (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.), Deepali Kozarekar (Novi, Mich.), Stephanie Liberatore (Wixom, Mich.), Mary Fredrick (Carleton, Mich.) and Robert J. Kudla (Canton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A positive electrode active material may include a compound represented by formula 1 or formula 2: Li(1.333-0.667x-y)Mn(0.667-0.333x)NixA(y-a)MaO2 (1), Li(1.333-0.667x-z-...