US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on April 29 for "Cathode active material and fluoride ion battery" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,879, issued on April 29, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Cathode active material and fluoride ion battery" was invented by Hidenori Miki (Hiratsuka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A main object of the present disclosure is to provide a novel cathode active material that can be used in a fluoride ion battery. The present disclosure achieves the object by providing a cathode active material used in a fluoride ion battery, the cathode active material comprising: a composition represented by Pb2MF6, in which M is at least one of Mn, Fe, Co, and Ni."

The patent was filed on Feb. 13, 2024, under Application No. ...