ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,785,086, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Cathode active material with coating layer including a transition metal oxide for cathode electrodes" was invented by Vamakshi Yadav (Sterling Heights, Mich.), Devendrasinh Darbar (Sterling Heights, Mich.), Wei Li (Troy, Mich.), Yuntao Gu (Farmington Hills, Mich.) and Raneen Taha (Sterling Heights, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cathode active material layer for a cathode electrode of a battery cell, comprising particles of cathode active material including one or more materials selected from a group consisting of a lithium- and manganese-ri...