US Patent Issued to BASF on Aug. 26 for "Multi-step process for making cathode active materials, and cathode active materials" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,034, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to BASF SE (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany).

"Multi-step process for making cathode active materials, and cathode active materials" was invented by Heino Sommer (Tuebingen, Germany), Felix Florian Riewald (Ludwigshafen, Germany) and Philipp Kurzhals (Ludwigshafen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is related to a process for making an electrode active material wherein said process comprises the following steps: (a) Providing a hydroxide TM(OH)2 or at least one oxide TMO or at least one oxyhydroxide of TM or a combination of at least two of the foregoing wherein TM is one...