US Patent Issued to UMICORE on Aug. 19 for "Method for preparing a positive electrode material for rechargeable lithium ion batteries" (South Korean, Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,790, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to UMICORE (Brussels).

"Method for preparing a positive electrode material for rechargeable lithium ion batteries" was invented by Randy De Palma (Brussels), Kasper Lambrighs (Brussels), Dae-Hyun Kim (Chungcheongnam-do, South Korea) and HyeJeong Yang (Chungcheongnam-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention relates to a process for manufacturing lithium nickel cobalt oxide-based cathode compounds for lithium ion secondary batteries. As part of this process, nickel, cobalt, and optionally manganese-bearing precursor compounds are lithiated and sintered at a high temperature. Whe...