US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Aug. 11 for "Li-rich cathode materials exhibiting non-topotactic reactions and components incorporating same" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,645, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Li-rich cathode materials exhibiting non-topotactic reactions and components incorporating same" was invented by Gerbrand Ceder (Oakland, Calif.) and Jianping Huang (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides systems, methods, apparatus, and compositions of matter related to lithium-ion batteries. In one aspect, a lithium metal oxide has a general formula Li1+x(MM')1-x-yDyO2. M is a redox-active transition metal, M' is a redox-inactive transition metal, and D is a metal dopant selected from a group cons...