ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,087, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Tesla Inc. (Austin, Texas) and Panasonic Holdings Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Battery systems based on two-additive electrolyte systems including 2-furanone, and method of formation process of same" was invented by Jeffery Raymond Dahn (Halifax N.S., Canada) and Xiaowei Ma (Halifax N.S., Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Improved battery systems have been developed for lithium-ion based batteries. The improved battery systems consist of two-additive mixtures in an electrolyte solvent. Such battery systems are prepared by assembling a positive electrode and a negative electrode in the sealed cell...