ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,477, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Solvent-free methods of forming solid-state electrodes having polymeric fiber networks by using fibrillation processing additives and solid-state electrodes made therefrom" was invented by Qili Su (Shanghai), Zhe Li (Shanghai), Yong Lu (Shanghai) and Haijing Liu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various aspects, the present disclosure provides solvent-free methods of making a solid-state electrode active layer for a solid-state electrode in an electrochemical cell that cycles lithium ions, by using a plurality of solid polymeric binder p...