US Patent Issued to BASF on June 24 for "Process for making precursors for cathode active materials, precursors, and cathode active materials" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,133, issued on June 24, was assigned to BASF SE (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany).

"Process for making precursors for cathode active materials, precursors, and cathode active materials" was invented by Benjamin Johannes Herbert Bergner (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany), Tobias Maximilian Teufl (Poing, Germany) and Rafael Benjamin Berk (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Process for making a manganese composite (oxy)hydroxide with a mean particle diameter D50 in the range from 2 to 16 micro metre comprising the step(s) of combining (a) an aqueous solution containing salts of nickel and of manganese, and, optio...