ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,302, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to UMICORE (Brussels).

"Solid electrolyte interphase in Li secondary batteries" was invented by Sebastian Mai (Ilmenau, Germany), Svetlozar-Dimitrov Ivanov (Ilmenau, Germany) and Andreas Bund (Ilmenau, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a solid electrolyte interphase composition having a F:CF3 mol-ratio (x) of 0.00greater thanxless than equal to12.00; a negative electrode comprising a negative electrode material and a solid electrolyte interphase composition on a surface of said negative electrode material, wherein said solid electrolyte interphase composition ha...