US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on April 21 for "Anode material for rechargeable Li-ion batteries" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,306, issued on April 21, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Anode material for rechargeable Li-ion batteries" was invented by Haodong Liu (San Diego) and Ping Liu (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Materials, designs, methods of manufacture, and devices are provided for an anode material for a rechargeable lithium-ion battery. For example, an anode material may include Li3plus-minusxV2plus-minusyO5plus-minusz, wherein 0less than equal toxless than equal to7, 0less than equal toyless than equal to1, and z may be based on the charge resulting from Li3plus-minusx and V2plus-minusy. Al...