US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Oct. 20 for "Protective coatings for lithium metal electrodes and methods of forming the same" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,879, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Protective coatings for lithium metal electrodes and methods of forming the same" was invented by Yifan Zhao (Warren, Mich.), Xingcheng Xiao (Troy, Mich.), Shuru Chen (Troy, Mich.) and Mei Cai (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrode includes an electroactive material layer and a protective layer disposed on or adjacent to a surface of the electroactive material layer. The protective layer includes a polymerized cyclic ether and a salt dispersed therewithin. The salt includes a nitrate salt and a phosphate salt. The sal...