US Patent Issued to The Research Foundation for The State University of New York on Oct. 6 for "Rechargeable lithium battery with an improved Epsilon-VOPO 4 cathode, and applications thereof" (New York, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,970, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to The Research Foundation for The State University of New York (Binghamton, N.Y.).

"Rechargeable lithium battery with an improved Epsilon-VOPO 4 cathode, 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 an improved cathode. The cathode comprises the epsilon polymorph of vanadyl phosphate, Epsilon-VOPO4, made from solvothermally synthesized H2VOPO4, and optimized to reversibly intercalate two Li-ions to reach full theoretical ca...