US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on April 21 for "Methods of synthesizing single-crystal LiNixMnyCo1-x-yO2 and applications of these materials" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,307, issued on April 21, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Methods of synthesizing single-crystal LiNixMnyCo1-x-yO2 and applications of these materials" was invented by Yanying Lu (El Cerrito, Calif.) and Guoying Chen (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus related to lithium-ion batteries. In one aspect, a method includes synthesizing an intermediate selected from a group of a nickel-manganese-cobalt nitrate, a nickel-manganese-cobalt acetate, a nickel-manganese-cobalt sulfate, a nickel-manganese-cobalt chloride, and a nic...