US Patent Issued to Rivian IP Holdings on June 23 for "Intermetallic anode materials for lithium-ion batteries" (California, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,192, issued on June 23, was assigned to Rivian IP Holdings LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"Intermetallic anode materials for lithium-ion batteries" was invented by Soo Kim (Fremont, Calif.), Rubayyat Mahbub (Fremont, Calif.), Byoungchul You (Saratoga, Calif.), Cary Michael Hayner (Naperville, Ill.), Sookyung Jeong (San Jose, Calif.), Tae Kyoung Kim (Albany, Calif.), Ki Tae Park (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Victor Prajapati (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Particular embodiments may provide an anode material, comprising a compound of formula Li2-X-Y, wherein: X and Y are each independently a metal atom or a metalloid atom; the anode ...