US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on Sept. 2 for "Method for producing an anode for a lithium-ion battery, and lithium-ion battery" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,977, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Method for producing an anode for a lithium-ion battery, and lithium-ion battery" was invented by Hideki Ogihara (Haimhausen, Germany) and Thomas Woehrle (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing an anode for a lithium-ion battery includes providing an anode collector carrier film and applying a coating compound onto at least one main surface of the anode collector carrier film. The coating compound contains a particulate auxiliary material. The coating compound is subsequently compressed to form an anode film on the anode collector car...