US Patent Issued to Battelle Memorial Institute on Jan. 28 for "Cost effective synthesis of oxide materials for lithium ion batteries" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,999, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Wash.).

"Cost effective synthesis of oxide materials for lithium ion batteries" was invented by Jie Xiao (Richland, Wash.) and Yujing Bi (Richland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for synthesizing single crystalline Ni-rich cathode materials are disclosed. The Ni-rich cathode material may have a formula LiNiXMnyMzCol1-x-y-zO2, where M represents one or more dopant metals, xless than=0.6, 0.01less than equal toygreater than0.2, 0less than equal tozless than equal to0.05, and x+y+zless than equal to1.0. The methods are cost-effective, and includ...