US Patent Issued to HYDRO-QUEBEC on June 30 for "Processes for the alkaliation or re-alkaliation of an electrode active material" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,074, issued on June 30, was assigned to HYDRO-QUEBEC (Montreal).

"Processes for the alkaliation or re-alkaliation of an electrode active material" was invented by Kamyab Amouzegar (Mont-Royal, Canada), Francois Larouche (Mont-St-Hilaire, Canada), Pascal Champagne (Trois-Rivieres, Canada), Georges Houlachi (Pointe-Claire, Canada), Patrick Bouchard (Shawinigan, Canada) and Karim Zaghib (Longueuil, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processes are described for the direct or indirect electrochemical alkaliation of an alkali metal deficient electrochemically active material. The processes include an electrolysis step either during the ...