US Patent Issued to Tesla on July 28 for "Process to produce cathode materials for rechargeable Li batteries" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,174, issued on July 28, was assigned to Tesla Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Process to produce cathode materials for rechargeable Li batteries" was invented by Feng Zou (Mississauga, Canada) and Yang Liu (Mississauga, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention provides a method for the production of high capacity cathode materials for use in rechargeable lithium batteries. Traditional methods for producing lithium mixed metal oxide cathode materials typically generate large amounts of effluent which effluent must be treated prior to discharge. The present process uses mixed metals as raw materials in a wet chemical reaction in ord...