US Patent Issued to Sparkz on Nov. 11 for "Systems and methods involving use of nitrogen-containing plasma to treat lithium iron phosphate cathodes" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,838, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Sparkz Inc. (Livermore, Calif.).

"Systems and methods involving use of nitrogen-containing plasma to treat lithium iron phosphate cathodes" was invented by Venkatraman Prabhakar (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods related to manufacturing of Lithium-Ion cells and Lithium-Ion cell cathode materials composed of LFP (Lithium Iron Phosphate) or LMFP (Lithium Manganese Iron Phosphate) are disclosed. In one exemplary implementation, there is provided a method of using a Nitrogen-containing plasma to treat the Lithium-Ion cell's LFP or LMFP cathode materials. Moreove...