ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,673, issued on May 27, was assigned to Dyson Technology Ltd. (Malmesbury, Great Britain).
"Method of manufacturing solid state battery cathodes for use in batteries" was invented by Robert Ian Joseph Gruar (Swindon, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing a battery cathode for a solid state battery is provided. The method includes generating a plasma remote from one or more targets suitable for forming cathodes, such as LiCoO2, exposing the plasma target or targets to the plasma, thereby generating sputtered material from the target or targets, and depositing sputtered material on a first portion of a s...