ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,583, issued on March 3, was assigned to Devendra K. Sadana (Pleasantville, N.Y.).

"Lithium ion battery with thin anode" was invented by Devendra K. Sadana (Pleasantville, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of this invention include different configuration of lithium batteries that have a cathode made of a lithium containing material, an anode, and an electrolyte/separator between the cathode and anode. The thin anode includes an anode current collector and a nucleation layer on the anode current collector surface that can include one or more thin a semiconductor layers made of a porous, single crystalline, semiconductor,...