US Patent Issued to Rivian IP Holdings on Feb. 25 for "Method of preparing lithium metal phosphate cathode materials" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,234,148, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Rivian IP Holdings LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"Method of preparing lithium metal phosphate cathode materials" was invented by Majid Talebiesfandarani (Emeryville, Calif.), Soo Kim (Fremont, Calif.) and Ki Tae Park (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process of preparing a lithium metal phosphate includes contacting a water-soluble metal precursor, a water-insoluble metal precursor, and a phosphate precursor in an acidic aqueous medium; to form a reaction mixture; precipitating from the reaction mixture a metal phosphate; collecting the metal phosphate; combining the metal phosphate...