US Patent Issued to BASF on Sept. 8 for "Process for making a coated cathode active material" (Japanese, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,136, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to BASF SE (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany).

"Process for making a coated cathode active material" was invented by Ryosuke Takeuchi (Amagasaki, Japan), Ji-Yong Shin (Amagasaki, Japan), Numata Eri (Amagasaki, Japan), Ito Seitaro (Amagasaki, Japan) and Christoph Erk (Ludwigshafen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is a process for making an electrode active material according to general formula Li1+(TM1-yM1y)1-xO2, where TM includes a combination of Ni and at least one of Co, Mn and Al, M1 is selected from the group consisting of Nb, Ta, and at least one of Co, Mn and Al, y is ...