US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Aug. 18 for "Electrode calendering with rollers having controllable sleeves" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,712,176, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Electrode calendering with rollers having controllable sleeves" was invented by Wayne Cai (Troy, Mich.), Raghavendra Keerthi Manda (Northville, Mich.), Donghao Liu (Troy, Mich.), Melissa K. Standing-Ball (New Boston, Mich.), Changbai Tan (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Nilesh D. Mankame (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Paul W. Alexander (Ypsilanti, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrode calendering system for reducing post-calendering electrode wrinkling includes at least one roller configured to compress an electrode and a sleeve. The roller is defined by a...