ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,867, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to 24M Technologies Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.) and Kyocera Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Systems and methods for improving safety features in electrochemical cells" was invented by Richard Holman (Wellesley, Mass.), Ricardo Bazzarella (Woburn, Mass.), Takaaki Fukushima (Okayama, Japan), Matt Tyler (Boston) and Naoki Ota (Lexington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein relate generally to systems and methods for improving safety features in electrochemical cells. In particular, the systems and methods as described herein can solve safety issues concerning gas generation in electr...