ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,168, issued on July 22, was assigned to HYDRO-QUEBEC (Montreal, Canada).
"Method of producing electrode material for lithium-ion secondary battery and lithium-ion battery using such electrode material" was invented by Vincent Gariepy (Drummondville, Canada), Abdelbast Guerfi (Brossard, Canada), Kazuma Hanai (Tsu, Japan), Pierre Hovington (Boucherville, Canada), Shinji Saito (Tsu, Japan), Takehiko Sawai (Tsu, Japan), Kazunori Urao (Tsu, Japan) and Karim Zaghib (Longueuil, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing an electrode material for a lithium-ion secondary battery. The method includes the following steps: (a) ...