ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,142, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Ionblox Inc. (Fremont, Calif.).

"Electrodes and lithium ion cells with high capacity anode materials" was invented by Herman A. Lopez (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Yogesh Kumar Anguchamy (Newark, Calif.), Haixia Deng (Fremont, Calif.), Yongbong Han (San Francisco), Charan Masarapu (Fremont, Calif.), Subramanian Venkatachalam (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Sujeet Kumar (Newark, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "High capacity silicon based anode active materials are described for lithium ion batteries. These materials are shown to be effective in combination with high capacity lithium rich cathode active mate...