ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,379, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to BASF SE (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany).

"Processing for making a partially coated electrode active material" was invented by Zhenji Han (Amagasaki, Japan), Suhao Wei (Osaka, Japan), Martin Schulz-Dobrick (Heidelberg, Germany), Hitoshi Fukumitsu (Osaka, Japan), Masatoshi Matsumoto (Tokyo), Jumpei Nakayama (Yamaguchi, Japan), Junji Kashiwagi (Yamaguchi, Japan) and Daisuke Morita (Yamaguchi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Process for making a partially coated electrode active material wherein said process comprises the following steps: (a) Providing an electrode active material according t...