MUMBAI, India, March 15 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202414066203 A) filed by Evonik Operations Gmbh, Essen, Germany, on Sept. 2, 2024, for 'composition and method for a protective layer of a metal electrode of a secondary battery.'

Inventor(s) include Takata, Ryo; Dehe, Daniel; Esken, Daniel; Schmidt, Franz; Alarcon, Carlos; Fang, Chia-Chen; and Wu, Nae-Lih.

The application for the patent was published on March 14, under issue no. 11/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A composition for a coating layer of an electrode of a secondary battery, especially a lithium battery, the composition comprising an organic binder and a metal compound selected from the grou...