US Patent Issued to A123 SYSTEMS on Nov. 18 for "Method and systems for metal doping on battery cathode materials" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,239, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to A123 SYSTEMS LLC (Novi, Mich.).

"Method and systems for metal doping on battery cathode materials" was invented by Lixin Wang (Belmont, Mass.), Weidong Zhou (Winchester, Mass.), Anil Parmar (Marlboro, Mass.), Fu Zhou (Sichuan, China) and Derek C. Johnson (Fort Collins, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for a battery cathode material comprising greater than or equal to 60% nickel content, the cathode material having at least one metal doped therein. In one example, a method comprises doping the at least one metal into the cathode material using water as a solv...