US Patent Issued to The Research Foundation for The State University of New York on May 5 for "epsilon-VOPO 4 cathode production, and applications thereof" (New York, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,620,592, issued on May 5, was assigned to The Research Foundation for The State University of New York (Binghamton, N.Y.).

"epsilon-VOPO 4 cathode production, and applications thereof" was invented by Krystal Lee (Binghamton, N.Y.), Carrie Siu (Darien, Ill.), Fengxia Xin (Vestal, N.Y.) and M. Stanley Whittingham (Vestal, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lithium battery with a cathode fabricated using an improved method for slurry formulation and electrode production. The cathode comprises the epsilon polymorph of vanadyl phosphate, Epsilon-VOPO4, made from solvothermally synthesized H2VOPO4, and optimized to reversibly intercalate two...