US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on Dec. 2 for "Method for diagnosing lithium plating in lithium ion batteries by using electrochemical impedance spectroscopy" (Chinese, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,201, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Method for diagnosing lithium plating in lithium ion batteries by using electrochemical impedance spectroscopy" was invented by Sonia Dandl (Munich), Peng Dong (Beijing), Edwin Knobbe (Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm, Germany), Sebastian Scharner (Tuerkenfeld, Germany), Peng Wu (Tianjin, China) and Jianbo Zhang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for diagnosing lithium plating in lithium ion batteries includes performing electrochemical impedance spectroscopy analysis on complete or undisassembled lithium-ion batteries under different temperatures."

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