US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Feb. 4 for "Processes for preparing functional particles for use in electrochemical cells and electrochemical cells including said functional particles" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,214,331, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Processes for preparing functional particles for use in electrochemical cells and electrochemical cells including said functional particles" was invented by Xingcheng Xiao (Troy, Mich.) and Mei Cai (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of making functional particles, such as functional lithium ion-exchanged zeolite particles and functional electrode particles for electrochemical cells are provided as well as electrochemical cells including such particles. A method includes combining a solution including (NH4)3PO4 with lithi...