US Patent Issued to UMICORE, UMICORE KOREA on March 17 for "Powder of carbonaceous matrix particles and a composite powder, for use in the negative electrode of a battery, comprising such a powder" (Belgian, South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,110, issued on March 17, was assigned to UMICORE (Brussels) and UMICORE KOREA LTD. (Chungcheongnam-do, South Korea).

"Powder of carbonaceous matrix particles and a composite powder, for use in the negative electrode of a battery, comprising such a powder" was invented by Michal Tulodziecki (Olen, Belgium), Jean-Sebastien Bridel (Olen, Belgium) and Sul-Hee Min (Chungcheongnam-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A powder of carbonaceous matrix particles with silicon-based sub-particles dispersed therein, wherein the particles have a harmonic mean value of their average Vickers hardness value and their average elastic modulu...