US Patent Issued to SAINT-GOBAIN CERAMICS & PLASTICS on May 26 for "Cathode material and methods of forming" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,368, issued on May 26, was assigned to SAINT-GOBAIN CERAMICS & PLASTICS INC. (Northborough, Mass.).

"Cathode material and methods of forming" was invented by Morgane A. S. Laurent (Clinton, Mass.), Alireza Shirazi-Amin (Berlin, Mass.), Yuto Takagi (Natick, Mass.), Choung-Houng Lai (Acton, Mass.) and Kapsoo Cheon (Marlborough, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cathode material can include a substrate including an active cathode material and a coating overlying at least a portion of the substrate. The coating material may include CFx and M2CO3, wherein M may include an alkali metal. In a particular embodiment, the coating may inclu...