US Patent Issued to UCHICAGO ARGONNE on June 2 for "Surface modified cathode active materials" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,704, issued on June 2, was assigned to UCHICAGO ARGONNE LLC (Chicago).

"Surface modified cathode active materials" was invented by Zonghai Chen (Bolingbrook, Ill.) and Yingying Xie (Woodridge, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for modifying a surface chemistry of a cathode active material includes providing a powder of the cathode active material, wetting the powder of cathode active material with an efficient amount of a solution to form a mixture, and baking the mixture to obtain a surface modified cathode active material, wherein: the cathode active material has a formula of LiNixMnyCo1-x-yO2, wherein 0less than equal t...