US Patent Issued to Blue Current on July 28 for "Binders for composite electrolytes" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,158, issued on July 28, was assigned to Blue Current Inc. (Hayward, Calif.).

"Binders for composite electrolytes" was invented by Irune Villaluenga (Berkeley, Calif.), Joanna Burdynska (Berkeley, Calif.) and Kevin Wujcik (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are composite electrolytes that include inorganic conductors and polar polymers. By providing the polar polymers as structures such as microspheres in a suspension in a non-polar solvent, the polar polymers can be used as binders in composites that include sulfide electrolytes. The resulting composites have high room temperature conductivities and good ...