ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,541, issued on May 19, was assigned to DOWA ELECTRONICS MATERIALS Co. LTD. (Tokyo) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Lithium-containing oxide precursor solution for coating electrode active material, and method for producing the same" was invented by Masahiro Yoshida (Tokyo), Hidefumi Fujita (Tokyo), Koji Tanoue (Tokyo), Kazuki Muraishi (Tokyo), Masaru Kubota (Tokyo) and Yuki Ishigaki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lithium-containing oxide precursor solution for coating an electrode active material that includes Li in an amount of 0.1 mass % or more and 5.0 mass % or less, at least one element selected from Nb, F, ...