US Patent Issued to Wildcat Discovery Technologies on July 1 for "Disordered rocksalt material and method of forming it" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,857, issued on July 1, was assigned to Wildcat Discovery Technologies Inc. (San Diego).

"Disordered rocksalt material and method of forming it" was invented by Tanghong Yi (San Diego), Han Wang (San Diego) and Bin Li (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A disordered rocksalt (DRS) having improved characteristic has a cation comprised of lithium and one other metal and an anion comprised of oxygen and fluorine, and one or more of phosphorous, sulfur, and nitrogen. The substitution of one or more of P, S, and N on the oxygen anion site may realize improved cycle life of the battery and/or may be useful to make safer batteries."

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