US Patent Issued to Wacker Chemie on Sept. 22 for "Method for cycling lithium ion batteries having anodes containing prelithiated silicon" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,260, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Wacker Chemie AG (Munich).

"Method for cycling lithium ion batteries having anodes containing prelithiated silicon" was invented by Rebecca Bernhard (Munich), Markus Ege (Munich) and Stefan Haufe (Neubiberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lithium-ion battery and method for cycling lithium-ion batteries. The method includes providing a lithium-ion battery comprising a cathode, an anode, a separator and an electrolyte. The anode contains pre-lithiated silicon having a degree of pre-lithiation Alpha1 of from 5 to 50% and the anode material is only partially lithiated during full chargi...