US Patent Issued to Rivian IP Holdings on Sept. 15 for "Olivine-based cathode materials with improved conductivity" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,487, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Rivian IP Holdings LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"Olivine-based cathode materials with improved conductivity" was invented by Soo Kim (Fremont, Calif.), Majid Talebiesfandarani (Emeryville, Calif.), Sookyung Jeong (San Jose, Calif.), Rubayyat Mahbub (Fremont, Calif.), Muratahan Aykol (San Jose, Calif.), Tae Kyoung Kim (Albany, Calif.) and Ki Tae Park (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrode active material includes a dopant (M2) and a lithium manganese iron phosphate host material represented as LiM2xMnyFe1-x-yPO4, wherein the dopant is a transition metal or main group metal, ...