US Patent Issued to Honeycomb Battery on July 14 for "Method of producing a battery anode active material comprising a porous host structure and silicon residing in the host pores" (Ohio Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,152, issued on July 14, was assigned to Honeycomb Battery Co. (Dayton, Ohio).

"Method of producing a battery anode active material comprising a porous host structure and silicon residing in the host pores" was invented by Bor Z. Jang (Centerville, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of producing multiple particulates having pores containing Si therein, comprising: (a) providing a porous conductive host structure having from 5% to 99.9% of pores; (b) introducing a halogen gas that chemically reacts with Si at a first temperature to form a silicon halide, wherein the silicon halide is selected from SiF4, SiCl4, SiI4, SiBr4, an...