ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,354, issued on July 15, was assigned to A123 SYSTEMS LLC (Waltham, Mass.).

"Method and systems for coated cathode materials and use of coated cathode materials" was invented by Jianyang Li (Acton, Mass.), Chuanjing Xu (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Maha Rachid Hammoud (Westland, Mich.), Taehwan Yu (Burlington, Mass.), Jun Wang (Shrewsbury, Mass.), Derek C. Johnson (Fort Collins, Colo.) and Fu Zhou (South Grafton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coated cathode material for lithium-ion batteries is disclosed. Methods and systems are further provided for applying a coating to an active cathode material for use in a lithium-ion battery. In o...