US Patent Issued to 24M Technologies, Kyocera on April 8 for "Pre-lithiation of electrode materials in a semi-solid electrode" (American, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,818, issued on April 8, was assigned to 24M Technologies Inc. and Kyocera Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Pre-lithiation of electrode materials in a semi-solid electrode" was invented by Naoki Ota (Lexington, Mass.), Mihai Duduta (Somerville, Mass.), Takaaki Fukushima (Okayama, Japan), Hiuling Zoe Yu (Quincy, Mass.), Taison Tan (Pasadena, Calif.) and Hiromitsu Mishima (Kirishima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein relate generally to electrochemical cells having pre-lithiated semi-solid electrodes, and particularly to semi-solid electrodes that are pre-lithiated during the mixing of the semi-solid electrode slur...