ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,230,758, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to SVOLT ENERGY TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Jiangsu, China).

"Electrolyte functional additive for lithium ion battery, lithium ion battery electrolyte and lithium ion battery" was invented by Yanhui Zhi (Jiangsu, China) and Ying Liu (Jiangsu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are an electrolyte functional additive for a lithium ion battery, a lithium ion battery electrolyte and the lithium ion battery. Calculated in parts by weight, the functional additive includes 0.1-0.5 parts of lithium tetrafluoroborate, 0.3-1.5 parts of lithium bisoxalate borate, and 0.2-2 parts of vinylene carbonate. Th...