US Patent Issued to BASF, UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO on Dec. 16 for "Lithium ion conducting solid materials" (Canadian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,261, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) and UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO (Waterloo, Canada).

"Lithium ion conducting solid materials" was invented by Xiaohan Wu (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Laidong Zhou (Waterloo, Canada), Linda Nazar (Waterloo, Canada) and Jorn Kulisch (Ludwigshafen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are a solid material which has ionic conductivity for lithium ions, a process for preparing said solid material, a use of said solid material as a solid electrolyte for an electrochemical cell, a solid structure selected from the group consisting of a cathode, an anode and a separato...