US Patent Issued to Ionblox on June 9 for "Lithium ion cells with high performance electrolyte and silicon oxide active materials achieving long cycle life, fast charge and high thermal stability" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,768, issued on June 9, was assigned to Ionblox Inc. (Fremont, Calif.).

"Lithium ion cells with high performance electrolyte and silicon oxide active materials achieving long cycle life, fast charge and high thermal stability" was invented by Yingnan Dong (Fremont, Calif.), Herman A. Lopez (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Kevin Hays (Fremont, Calif.) and Yu-Hsin Huang (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Improved electrolytes for lithium-based cells can include a dual salt combination of lithium hexafluorophosphate and lithium bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide or lithium bis(trifluoro-methanesulfonyl)imide, and a solvent that includes dimethyl ...