ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,280, issued on April 14, was assigned to CarbonIP Technologies Inc. (Port Coquitlam, Canada).

"Sulfur cathodes, sulfur cathode materials, and apparatus and methods for making same" was invented by Jin Kwon Tak (Vegreville, Canada) and Earl Jenson (Vegreville, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for embedding sulfur into conductive carbon is provided. Elemental sulfur is dissolved in liquid ammonia to form a sulfur-ammonia solution. Conductive carbon is soaked in the sulfur-ammonia solution to embed the conductive carbon with the dissolved sulfur. The liquid ammonia in the sulfur-ammonia solution can be removed as gaseous ...