ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,363, issued on May 26, was assigned to Cornerstone Research Group Inc. (Miamisburg, Ohio).

"Coating process for sulfur polymer cathodes" was invented by John A. Hondred (Springboro, Ohio), Brian E. Henslee (Galloway, Ohio), Frank M. Zalar (Beavercreek, Ohio) and Pavel Nikolaev (Beavercreek, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processes for forming sulfur polymer cathodes include heating elemental sulfur above a melting point of sulfur to form molten sulfur having linear polysulfide chains, combining the molten sulfur with a cross-linker to form a sulfur polymer mixture, depositing a film of the sulfur polymer mixture on a substrate, a...