US Patent Issued to GRU Energy Lab on March 17 for "Porous electrochemically active-material structures with dispersed inert elements" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,230, issued on March 17, was assigned to GRU Energy Lab Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Porous electrochemically active-material structures with dispersed inert elements" was invented by Xiahui Yao (San Jose, Calif.), Xiaohua Liu (Mountain View, Calif.), Sa Zhou (San Jose, Calif.) and Song Han (Foster City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are electrochemically active-material structures comprising silicon and one or more inert elements, such that these inert elements are chemically and/or atomically dispersed. Also described are negative battery electrodes and lithium-ion electrochemical cells comprising such electr...