ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,194, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Elevated Materials US LLC (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Inline contact pre-lithiation" was invented by Ezhiylmurugan Rangasamy (San Jose, Calif.), Jean Delmas (Santa Clara, Calif.), Bernard Frey (Livermore, Calif.), Subramanya P. Herle (Mountain View, Calif.) and Girish Kumar Gopalakrishnan Nair (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for fabricating a pre-lithiated electrode structure are provided. The method includes supplying a first continuous web substrate from an unwinder roller to a winder roller. The first continuous web substrate includes a layer of lithium metal. ...