US Patent Issued to Virginia Commonwealth University on Sept. 16 for "Slug-flow manufacturing of uniform and controllable microparticles for battery cathodes" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,169, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond, Va.).

"Slug-flow manufacturing of uniform and controllable microparticles for battery cathodes" was invented by Mo Jiang (Richmond, Va.) and Ram B. Gupta (Richmond, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Slug flow manufacturing systems and methods for production of battery microparticle materials such as nickel-cobalt-manganese oxide (NCM) are disclosed. The slug flow reactor system is capable of producing microparticles reproducibly and continuously in desired scales. The system may be run with fast kinetics (e.g., complete reaction from nucleation to ...