ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,006, issued on March 4, was assigned to Nexeon Ltd. (Abingdon, Great Britain).

"Electroactive materials for metal-ion batteries" was invented by Charles Mason (Abingdon, Great Britain), Richard Taylor (Abingdon, Great Britain) and Christopher Michael Friend (Abingdon, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a particulate material comprising a plurality of composite particles, wherein the composite particles comprise: (a) a porous carbon framework comprising micropores and mesopores having a total pore volume of at least 0.6 cm3/g and no more than 2 cm3/g, where the volume fraction of micropores is in the...