US Patent Issued to UMICORE on Aug. 11 for "Composite powder for use in the negative electrode of a battery and a battery comprising such a composite powder" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,633, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to UMICORE (Brussels).

"Composite powder for use in the negative electrode of a battery and a battery comprising such a composite powder" was invented by Jean-Sebastien Bridel (Olen, Belgium) and Kun Feng (Olen, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composite powder for use in a negative electrode of a battery comprising composite particles, said composite particles comprising a carbon matrix material and silicon-based particles embedded in said carbon matrix material, said composite powder having a Raman spectrum, wherein a D band a D'band, both corresponding to the carbon matrix material cont...