ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,006, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Fabrication process for polymer-based bipolar batteries via in-situ polymerization" was invented by Yong Lu (Shanghai), Zhe Li (Shanghai), Meiyuan Wu (Shanghai) and Haijing Liu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of forming a battery via in situ polymerization are provided. A precursor of a first blocker composition is applied to select edge regions of at least one bipolar electrode and terminal negative and positive electrodes. The components are assembled to form a stack with at least two insulating interlayers disposed between electr...