US Patent Issued on May 20 for "Methods for the production of cathode materials for lithium ion batteries" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,426, issued on May 20.

"Methods for the production of cathode materials for lithium ion batteries" was invented by Baoquan Huang (Troy, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides methods for producing cathode materials for lithium ion batteries. Cathode materials that contain manganese are emphasized. Representative materials include LixNi1-y-zMnyCozO2 (NMC) (where x is in the range from 0.80 to 1.3, y is in the range from 0.01 to 0.5, and z is in the range from 0.01 to 0.5), LixMn2O4(LM), and LixNi1-yMnyO2 (LMN) (where x is in the range from 0.8 to 1.3 and y is in the range from 0.0 to 0.8). The process inc...