US Patent Issued to SCHOTT on Aug. 18 for "Aluminum-doped lithium ion conductor based on a garnet structure" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,712,200, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to SCHOTT AG (Mainz, Germany).

"Aluminum-doped lithium ion conductor based on a garnet structure" was invented by Sebastian Leukel (Mainz, Germany), Meike Schneider (Taunusstein, Germany), Andreas Roters (Mainz, Germany), Jorg Schumacher (Kornwestheim, Germany), Wolfgang Schmidbauer (Mainz Finthen, Germany) and Bernd Rudinger (Worrstadt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aluminum-doped lithium ion conductor based on a garnet structure includes an aluminum-doped lithium lanthanum zirconate (LLZO). The LLZO is co-doped with at least one trivalent M3+ ion on the lanthanum site. The trivalent ...