US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND BOARD OF TRUSTEES, GOTION on Aug. 25 for "Lithium bis(trimethylsilyl) phosphate as a novel bi-functional additive for lithium ion batteries" (Rhode Island, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,082, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND BOARD OF TRUSTEES (Kingston, R.I.) and GOTION INC. (Independence, Ohio).

"Lithium bis(trimethylsilyl) phosphate as a novel bi-functional additive for lithium ion batteries" was invented by Brett Lucht (Kingston, R.I.), Jongjung Kim (Warwick, R.I.), Venkata A.K. Adiraju (Warwick, R.I.), Jennifer Hoffmann (Elyria, Ohio) and Martin Payne (Avon, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This work investigates the beneficial roles of lithium bis(trimethylsilyl) phosphate (LiTMSP) which may act as a novel bifunctional additive for lithium ion batteries, in particular, LiNi0.5Mn1....