ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,482, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Ionblox Inc. (Fremont, Calif.).
"Silicon oxide based high capacity anode materials for lithium ion batteries" was invented by Haixia Deng (Fremont, Calif.), Yongbong Han (San Francisco), Charan Masarapu (Fremont, Calif.), Yogesh Kumar Anguchamy (Newark, Calif.), Herman A. Lopez (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Sujeet Kumar (Newark, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Silicon oxide based materials, including composites with various electrical conductive compositions, are formulated into desirable anodes. The anodes can be effectively combined into lithium ion batteries with high capacity cathode mate...