US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on June 9 for "Cathode active material and lithium ion battery comprising said cathode active material" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,741, issued on June 9, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Cathode active material and lithium ion battery comprising said cathode active material" was invented by Roland Jung (Munich) and Thomas Woehrle (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cathode active material for a lithium ion battery includes particles having a core-shell structure, where each of the particles has a core including a core material and a shell including a shell material. The core material is selected from the group consisting of: layered oxides, including overlithiated layered oxides, compounds having an olivine structure, compounds having a...