ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,304, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Methods for fabricating pre-lithiated, two-dimensional anode materials" was invented by Yuntao Gu (Farmington Hills, Mich.), Jeffrey David Cain (Royal Oak, Mich.), Sayed Youssef Sayed Nagy (Troy, Mich.), Nicholas Paul William Pieczonka (Windsor, Canada) and Thomas E. Moylan (Troy, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a method for forming a pre-lithiated layered anode material. The method includes removing cations from a precursor material including a layered ionic compound to form creates a two-dimensional structure...