US Patent Issued to BASF on Oct. 27 for "Process for producing lithiated transition metal oxides" (Michigan, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,217, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to BASF Corp. (Florham Park, N.J.).

"Process for producing lithiated transition metal oxides" was invented by William C. Mays (Farmington Hills, Mich.), Benjamin Reichman (West Bloomfield, Mich.) and Martin Lawrence Panchula (Beachwood, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are processes for the formation of electrochemically active materials such as lithiated transition metal oxides that solve prior issues with throughput and calcination. The processes include forming the materials in the presence of a processing additive that includes potassium prior to calcination that produces active ma...