US Patent Issued to Enevate on Aug. 18 for "Prevention of gassing in Si dominant lithium-ion batteries" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,712,207, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Enevate Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Prevention of gassing in Si dominant lithium-ion batteries" was invented by Hong Zhao (Irvine, Calif.), Heidi Anderson (Irvine, Calif.) and Benjamin Yong Park (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and/or method for replacing solvents/additives such as fluoroethylene carbonate (FEC) to create new electrolyte compositions for lithium-ion energy storage devices with silicon-based electrode materials and reduce undesirable gassing. The electrolyte compositions may be used in an energy storage device comprising a first electrode and a second electro...