US Patent Issued to Wildcat Discovery Technologies on Sept. 2 for "Disordered rocksalt cathode material and method of making it" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,987, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Wildcat Discovery Technologies Inc. (San Diego).

"Disordered rocksalt cathode material and method of making 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: "It has been discovered that improved disordered rocksalts comprise of Mn are made by method comprising mixing a lithium compound with a metal precursor compound comprised of Mn having an oxidation state of 2 to form a mixture and heating the mixture to a temperature to form a disordered rocksalt structure. The method may realize improved cycle life with altered metal and ...