US Patent Issued to A123 SYSTEMS on Sept. 16 for "Cathode with pre-lithiation coating and methods for preparation and use" (Massachusetts, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,019, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to A123 SYSTEMS LLC (Novi, Mich.).

"Cathode with pre-lithiation coating and methods for preparation and use" was invented by Derrick Maxwell (Winthrop, Mass.), Xiangyang Zhu (Watertown, Mass.), Jun Wang (Shrewsbury, Mass.), Taehwan Yu (Burlington, Mass.), Weidong Zhou (Winchester, Mass.), Sookyung Jeong (Burlington, Mass.), Derek C. Johnson (Fort Collins, Colo.), Linghong Zhang (Waltham, Mass.), Kerui Sun (Cambridge, Mass.), Nathan Reinsma (Medford, Mass.) and Xiaorui Chen (Waltham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for a cathode material for lithium ion batte...