US Patent Issued to CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY on May 19 for "Fast charging and discharging rechargeable batteries by isotope control" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,518, issued on May 19, was assigned to CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY (Pittsburgh).

"Fast charging and discharging rechargeable batteries by isotope control" was invented by Venkatasubramanian Viswanathan (Pittsburgh), Zeeshan Ahmad (Pittsburgh) and Shang Zhu (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to a battery having at least one electrochemical cell that comprises a cathode, an anode or an anode current collector and an electrolyte disposed between the cathode and the anode or the current collector, wherein (a) the anode comprises an isotopically enriched metal; (b) the cathode comprises isotopicall...