ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,228, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).
"Active material particles, electrochemical element, method for producing said active material particles, method for producing said electrochemical element, and electrochemical device" was invented by Shuhei Uchida (Osaka fu, Japan) and Yoshinori Satou (Osaka fu, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An active material particle include a lithium silicate composite particle including a lithium silicate phase, and silicon particles dispersed in the lithium silicate phase, and a first coating that covers at least a portion of a sur...