US Patent Issued to A123 SYSTEMS on March 4 for "Lithium tetraborate glass coating on cathode materials for improving safety and cycling stability" (Massachusetts, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,003, issued on March 4, was assigned to A123 SYSTEMS LLC (Novi, Mich.).

"Lithium tetraborate glass coating on cathode materials for improving safety and cycling stability" was invented by Weidong Zhou (Waltham, Mass.), Lixin Wang (Waltham, Mass.), Fu Zhou (South Grafton, Mass.) and Derek Johnson (Fort Collins, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Materials and methods for a coated active electrode material for use in a lithium-ion battery is provided. In one example, a coating for an active electrode material or active electrode material precursor of an electrode of a battery cell may include lithium, boron, and oxygen. In particular...