US Patent Issued to Phillips 66 on Dec. 9 for "Methods for preparing hard carbon products by sulfurization and oxidation processes" (Oklahoma, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,125, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Phillips 66 Co. (Houston).

"Methods for preparing hard carbon products by sulfurization and oxidation processes" was invented by Dachuan Shi (Bartlesville, Okla.), Alexander Z. Wilbee (Bartlesville, Okla.), Paul M. Schmidt (Bartlesville, Okla.), Liang Zhang (Owasso, Okla.), Kan Huang (Sterling Heights, Mich.) and Jonathan R. Marda (Bartlesville, Okla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to methods for preparing carbon materials which can be used in battery electrodes. More specifically, embodiments relate to methods for preparing hard carbon mater...