ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,247, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Cellulose-based fiber-type dispersant for hybrid capacitive electrodes and methods of making the same" was invented by Dewen Kong (Shanghai), Meiyuan Wu (Shanghai), Si Chen (Shanghai) and Haijing Liu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of making a capacitor-assisted hybrid electrode for a lithium-ion electrochemical cell includes admixing a solvent, a cellulose-based dispersant, and a plurality of capacitive particles comprising carbon to form a dispersion. The cellulose-based dispersant forms hydrogen bonds with one or more carbonyl...