US Patent Issued to UEA Enterprises on Sept. 16 for "Negative electrode material for a lithium ion battery" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,022, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to UEA Enterprises Ltd. (Norwich, Great Britain).

"Negative electrode material for a lithium ion battery" was invented by Yimin Chao (Norwich, Great Britain) and Chenghao Yue (Norwich, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A negative electrode material for a lithium ion battery, the material comprising: particles comprising a core, with the core containing silicon, the particles having one or more coating layers disposed around the core, at least one of the coating layers comprising a porous semi-conducting metal oxide."

The patent was filed on July 31, 2020, under Application No. 17/633...