ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,490, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to PIXION BATTERIES INC. (Austin, Texas).

"Methods for producing binder-coated conductor-speckled active battery material agglomerations for electrodes" was invented by Vikram Devaraj (Austin, Texas) and Varun Devaraj (Chennai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing binder-coated active battery material agglomerations includes agitating, within a vessel, a volume of a binder-solvent solution across two or more steps with a particulate mixture including active battery material particles. The binder-solvent solution has a solubility limit for a mixture of binder material particl...