US Patent Issued to Evonik Operations on Feb. 10 for "Preparation of nanostructured mixed lithium zirconium oxides by means of spray pyrolysis" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,594, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Evonik Operations GmbH (Essen, Germany).

"Preparation of nanostructured mixed lithium zirconium oxides by means of spray pyrolysis" was invented by Durdu Schafer (Rodgau, Germany), Armin Wiegand (Grosskrotzenburg, Germany), Harald Alff (Kahl, Germany), Ryo Takata (Hanau, Germany) and Franz Schmidt (Frankfurt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a process for producing lithium zirconium mixed oxides by means of flame spray pyrolysis, mixed oxides obtainable by this process and their use in lithium ion batteries."

The patent was filed on Sept. 10, 2020, under Applicat...