US Patent Issued to NINGBO INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES on June 23 for "Cathode material made of cobalt-free layered oxide" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,189, issued on June 23, was assigned to NINGBO INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (Ningbo, China).

"Cathode material made of cobalt-free layered oxide" was invented by Xiaohui Wen (Ningbo, China), You Shang (Ningbo, China), Bao Qiu (Ningbo, China), Qingwen Gu (Ningbo, China) and Zhaoping Liu (Ningbo, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cathode material made of cobalt-free layered oxide. A primary particle of the cathode material includes a lithium-poor phase LiaM2-aO2 and a lithium-rich phase Li2M'O3 which are of a layered-like structure. Coordination between these two phases is capable ...