Selected battery patents

Kummer-Weber: Sodium sulfur 1966

Whittingham: Lithium intercalation 1976

Goodenough: Cobalt oxide cathode 1980

Basu: Graphite anode 1982

Thackeray-Goodenough: Manganese spinel cathode 1983

Yazami: Graphite anode 1984

Yoshino: Lithium-ion battery 1986

Goodenough: Olivine cathode 1996

Thackeray-Johnson: NMC 2000

Dahn: NMC 2001

 

 

Selected documents

Voltage Fade: Gallagher-Kang (Oct. 11, 2010)

Envia: Crane report (June 28, 2012)

Envia: Kapadia et al lawsuit (Nov. 22, 2013)

BASF-Umicore lawsuit over NMC (Feb. 20, 2015)

 

 

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