US Patent Issued to BASF on April 14 for "Electrochemical cells comprising coated cathode active material and silyl ester phosphonate as electrolyte additive" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,275, issued on April 14, was assigned to BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany).

"Electrochemical cells comprising coated cathode active material and silyl ester phosphonate as electrolyte additive" was invented by Manuel Alejandro Mendez Agudelo (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Maraike Ahlf (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Heino Sommer (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Jacob Haag (Beachwood, Ohio), Hannes Wolf (Ludwigshafen, Germany) and Johannes David Hoecker (Ludwigshafen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrochemical cell has a cathode active material selected from mixed lithium transition metal oxides containing Mn and at least one second transiti...