ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,252, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to HITHIUM TECH HK Ltd. (Kowloon, Hong Kong).

"Additive for electrolyte, electrolyte, and electrochemical device" was invented by Chaojie Xiong (Xiamen, China) and Min Guo (Xiamen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides an additive for an electrolyte for a lithium battery, an electrolyte, and an electrochemical device. The additive includes a compound represented by the following formula I, wherein R1, R2, R3, and R4 are identical to or different from each other, and are independently selected from a group consisting of hydrogen, halogen, substituted or unsubstituted C1...