US Patent Issued to Evonik Operations on March 3 for "Preparation of nanostructured mixed lithium zirconium oxides by means of spray pyrolysis" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,604, issued on March 3, 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: "A process may produce mixed oxides including lithium, zirconium, and optionally at least one other than Li and Zr metal, by flame spray pyrolysis. Mixed oxides are obtainable by such a process. Such mixed oxides may be used in lithium ion batteries."...