US Patent Issued to UMICORE, UMICORE KOREA on July 15 for "Lithium nickel manganese cobalt composite oxide as a positive electrode active material for rechargeable lithium ion batteries" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,350, issued on July 15, was assigned to UMICORE (Brussels) and UMICORE KOREA LTD. (Chungcheongnam-do, South Korea).

"Lithium nickel manganese cobalt composite oxide as a positive electrode active material for rechargeable lithium ion batteries" was invented by Maxime Blangero (Chungcheongnam-do, South Korea), KyungSub Jung (Chungcheongnam-do, South Korea), Bin-Na Yun (Chungcheongnam-do, South Korea) and Olesia Karakulina (Chungcheongnam-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A positive electrode active material powder suitable for lithium-ion batteries comprises lithium transition metal-based oxide particles, said particles c...