US Patent Issued to BASF on Aug. 4 for "Method for making precursors of cathode active materials for lithium ion batteries" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,215, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to BASF SE (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany).

"Method for making precursors of cathode active materials for lithium ion batteries" was invented by Thorsten Beierling (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Sabine Frischhut (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Matthias Rauls (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Lukas Karl Metzger (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Sabine Weiguny (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Michael Lennartz (Ludwigshafen, Germany) and Rafael Benjamin Berk (Ludwigshafen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a process for making a particulate (oxy)hydroxide of TM, where TM represents a combination of metals and inclu...