US Patent Issued to The Johns Hopkins University on Aug. 11 for "High capacity blended anodes for Li-ion batteries" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,302, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore).

"High capacity blended anodes for Li-ion batteries" was invented by Jesse S. Ko (Bethesda, Md.), Konstantinos Gerasopoulos (Gambrills, Md.) and Matthew W. Logan (Columbia, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a battery anode compound including a metal oxide and a metal. Also disclosed herein is a method of providing a battery anode compound comprising synthesizing AlNb11O29 and combining AlNb11O29 and a metal. A Li-ion battery anode compound is also disclosed that includes a slurry comprising up to 70% AlNb11O29, up to 70% Li4Ti5O12, a...