US Patent Issued to Phillips 66 on Oct. 7 for "Coated nano-ordered carbon particles and methods for preparing the same" (Oklahoma, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,971, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Phillips 66 Co. (Houston).

"Coated nano-ordered carbon particles and methods for preparing the same" was invented by Liang Zhang (Owasso, Okla.), Brian J. Worfolk (Raleigh, N.C.) and James A. Enterkin (Bartlesville, Okla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to carbon materials for battery electrodes and methods for preparing such carbon materials. More specifically, embodiments relate to coated nano-ordered carbon particles and methods for coating a carbon film onto carbonaceous particles to produce the coated nano-ordered carbon particles which c...