ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,294, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"In-situ measurement technique for nondestructive determination of end-of-mixing time during slurry preparation for battery manufacturing process" was invented by Avinesh Ojha (Southgate, Mich.), Maryamossadat Akram (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Wanjiao Liu (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of producing an electrode slurry for use in battery manufacturing includes mixing a plurality of slurry components within an internal volume of a mixing container, transmitting ultrasonic signals across the internal volume of the mixing contain...