ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,773, issued on June 9, was assigned to VALIANT Co. LTD. (Yantai, China).

"Cyclic sulfonate additive for electrolyte of lithium-ion battery (LIB) and preparation method and use thereof" was invented by Cunsheng Lin (Yantai, China), Yuanyuan Gong (Yantai, China), Zhaolin Liu (Yantai, China), Qingliang Lu (Yantai, China), Bin Liu (Yantai, China) and Yu Shi (Yantai, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cyclic sulfonate additive for an electrolyte of a lithium-ion battery (LIB) is disclosed, with a structure shown in formula I:A non-aqueous electrolyte of a LIB can be prepared with the cyclic sulfonate additive for the electrolyte of the...