US Patent Issued to Apple on Feb. 4 for "Lithium fluoride-containing coatings for cathode active materials in Li-ion batteries" (California, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,218,352, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Lithium fluoride-containing coatings for cathode active materials in Li-ion batteries" was invented by Hongli Dai (Los Altos, Calif.), Huiming Wu (San Jose, Calif.), Chi-Kai Lin (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Michael J. Erickson (San Jose, Calif.), Martin Bettge (Santa Clara, Calif.), Xiaoping Wang (Naperville, Ill.), Yan Li (Westmont, Ill.), Yanjie Cui (Arlington Heights, Ill.), James A. Gilbert (Bolingbrook, Ill.), Zhenzhen Yang (Godfrey, Ill.), Anh D. Vu (Lemont, Ill.), Arthur Jeremy Kropf (Westmont, Ill.), Hakim H. Iddir (Hoffman Estates, Ill.), Christopher S. Johnson (Naperville, Ill.) and John David Carter (Bolingb...