US Patent Issued to UCHICAGO ARGONNE on May 12 for "Electrolytes for low temperature lithium batteries" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,955, issued on May 12, was assigned to UCHICAGO ARGONNE LLC (Chicago).

"Electrolytes for low temperature lithium batteries" was invented by Zhengcheng Zhang (Naperville, Ill.), Mingfu He (Palos Park, Ill.) and Qian Liu (Darien, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrochemical cell configured to operate at low temperatures includes a cathode comprising a cathode active material, an anode comprising an anode active material, a separator disposed between the cathode and the anode, and an electrolyte. The electrolyte includes a fluorinated cyclic carbonate, a solid electrolyte interphase (SEI)-forming additive salt, a metal fluoroph...