US Patent Issued to UCHICAGO ARGONNE on May 19 for "Cathode materials for use in lithium cells and batteries" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,519, issued on May 19, was assigned to UCHICAGO ARGONNE LLC (Chicago).

"Cathode materials for use in lithium cells and batteries" was invented by Michael M. Thackeray (Naperville, Ill.), Eungje Lee (Naperville, Ill.), Jason R. Croy (Plainfield, Ill.) and Boyu Shi (Willowbrook, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composite electrode active material is described herein, which comprises two or more electrode active materials blended or structurally-integrated together, in one of the materials is a lithiated spinel selected from the group consisting of (a) a lithiated spinel of formula LiMnxNiyMzO2; wherein M comprises at least one meta...