ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,299, issued on April 21, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Protective particle coatings for electroactive material particles and methods of forming the same" was invented by Sayed Youssef Sayed Nagy (Troy, Mich.), Caleb Reese (Ferndale, Mich.) and Jeffrey David Cain (Royal Oak, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a method for preparing an electroactive material for an electrochemical cell that cycles lithium ions. The method includes immersing a plurality of electroactive material particles in an aqueous solution and adding one or more fluorinated lithium salts to the aq...