ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,471, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Positive electroactive materials for all-solid-state battery" was invented by Zhe Li (Shanghai), Qili Su (Shanghai), Yong Lu (Shanghai), Haijing Liu (Shanghai), Lianqi Zhang (Tianjin, China) and Yiming Sun (Tianjin, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a positive electroactive material for an electrochemical cell that cycles lithium ions. The positive electroactive material includes a nickel-rich material including a plurality of solid-state particles. Each solid-state particle has a heterogeneous structure that inc...