US Patent Issued to Battelle Memorial Institute on June 16 for "Batteries and battery manufacture methods" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,658,529, issued on June 16, was assigned to Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Wash.).

"Batteries and battery manufacture methods" was invented by Jie Xiao (Richland, Wash.), Bingbin Wu (Richland, Wash.) and Z. Daniel Deng (Richland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Batteries and associated methods of manufacture are described. According to one aspect, a battery includes a battery case, an anode within the battery case, a cathode within the battery case, a separator configured to electrically insulate the anode from the cathode and the battery case, an electrolyte in contact with the anode and the cathode, and first and second te...