ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,723, issued on June 2, was assigned to Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas).

"Multilayered anode and associated methods and systems" was invented by Arumugam Manthiram (Austin, Texas), Brian Theodore Heligman (Austin, Texas), Karl Joseph Kreder III (Austin, Texas) and Kevin Scanlan (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are multilayer composite foil materials, as well as methods of making and using multilayer composite foil materials. The composite foil materials can comprise different layers of different metals which may have differing activity toward an active metal, such as lithiu...