ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,783, issued on March 24, was assigned to Tsinghua University (Beijing) and HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY Co. LTD. (New Taipei, Taiwan).

"Method of making lithium-ion battery anode" was invented by Zi-Xin Hong (Beijing), Zhen-Han Fang (Beijing), Jia-Ping Wang (Beijing) and Shou-Shan Fan (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of making lithium-ion battery anode comprising step (S1)-step (S3). step (S1): providing a nano-silicon material, and coating a positively charged carbonizable polymer on a surface of the nano-silicon material, to obtain a nano-silicon coated with the positively charged carbonizable polymer. Step (S2): add...