US Patent Issued to BASF on July 28 for "Method for making precursors of cathode active materials for lithium ion batteries" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,173, issued on July 28, was assigned to BASF SE (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany).

"Method for making precursors of cathode active materials for lithium ion batteries" was invented by Sabine Frischhut (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Thorsten Beierling (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Lukas Karl Metzger (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Matthias Rauls (Homburg, Germany) and Marc Duchardt (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 metals and includes nickel and at least one metal selected from cobalt and aluminum and manganese. The process includes the s...