US Patent Issued to Battelle Memorial Institute on Nov. 4 for "Direct recycling and converting cathode materials into high-performance single crystal cathode materials" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,267, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Wash.).

"Direct recycling and converting cathode materials into high-performance single crystal cathode materials" was invented by Jie Xiao (Richland, Wash.), Ran Yi (Richland, Wash.), Bingbin Wu (Richland, Wash.) and Yujing Bi (Richland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solid-state method for recycling spent and/or scrap cathode material includes heating a cathode material comprising lithium nickel manganese cobalt oxide in an oxygen-containing atmosphere at a temperature T1 for an effective period of time t1 to convert the cathode material to a solid...