US Patent Issued to MITSUI CHEMICALS on May 27 for "Lithium borate compound, additive for lithium secondary battery, nonaqueous electrolytic solution for lithium secondary battery, precursor for lithium secondary battery, and production method for lithium secondary battery" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,879, issued on May 27, was assigned to MITSUI CHEMICALS INC. (Tokyo).

"Lithium borate compound, additive for lithium secondary battery, nonaqueous electrolytic solution for lithium secondary battery, precursor for lithium secondary battery, and production method for lithium secondary battery" was invented by Kenichi Goto (Tokyo), Shigeru Mio (Chiba, Japan), Satoko Fujiyama (Kisarazu, Japan), Kei Sugawara (Ichihara, Japan) and Mitsuaki Chida (Mobara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lithium borate compound represented by the following Formula (I). In Formula (I), each of R1, R2, and R3 independently represents a hydrocarbon grou...