ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,388, issued on July 7.

"Rechargeable battery with movable electrode" was invented by Arthur Oded Ruppin (Ringwood, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rechargeable battery that is configured to bring two electrodes together when charging or discharging by moving one electrode towards the other and having the two electrodes be apart when not charging or discharging, thus lowering the intercalation of the battery as set up in the customary manner and likely having more charge/discharge cycles and faster charge time as likely the ion transfer throughput can be made larger and there may even be multiple and/or redundant ion transfer pat...