US Patent Issued to Apple on July 21 for "Synergistic additives for high volume lithium ion batteries" (California, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,061, issued on July 21, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Synergistic additives for high volume lithium ion batteries" was invented by Hongli Dai (Los Altos, Calif.), Jongho Jeon (Cupertino, Calif.), Libo Hu (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Mingfu He (Lemont, Ill.), Qian Liu (Lemont, Ill.) and Zhengcheng Zhang (Lemont, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates generally to battery cells, and more particularly, electrolyte additives for use in lithium ion battery cells."

The patent was filed on Sept. 22, 2022, under Application No. 17/950,430.

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