ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,714,849, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Battelle Memorial Institute (Columbus, Ohio).

"Mixed ionic electronic conductors: devices, systems and methods of use" was invented by Amy M. Heintz (Columbus, Ohio), Krenar Shqau (Columbus, Ohio), Ramanathan Lalgudi (Columbus, Ohio), Patrick Ganzer (Columbus, Ohio), Mingming Zhang (Columbus, Ohio), Jacob Lilly (Columbus, Ohio) and Matthew Colachis (Columbus, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a variety of novel devices, systems, and methods of utilizing mixed-ionic-electronic conductor (MIEC) materials adapted to function with an applied current or potential. The materi...