US Patent Issued to Honeycomb Battery on Sept. 8 for "Conducting polymer network-protected cathode active materials for lithium secondary batteries" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,789, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Honeycomb Battery Co. (Dayton, Ohio).

"Conducting polymer network-protected cathode active materials for lithium secondary batteries" was invented by Mingrui Liu (Dayton, Ohio), Hao-Hsun Chang (Centerville, Ohio) and Bor Z. Jang (Centerville, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a composite particulate for use in a lithium battery cathode, the composite particulate comprising one or a plurality of particles of a cathode active material encapsulated by or embedded in an electrically and/or ionically conducting polymer gel network, wherein the cathode active material is selected from t...