US Patent Issued to GROUP14 TECHNOLOGIES on April 21 for "Manufacturing of silicon-carbon composites materials" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,443, issued on April 21, was assigned to GROUP14 TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Woodinville, Wash.).

"Manufacturing of silicon-carbon composites materials" was invented by Henry R. Costantino (Woodinville, Wash.), Abirami Dhanabalan (Bothell, Wash.), Avery J. Sakshaug (Snohomish, Wash.), Christopher Timmons (Monroe, Wash.) and Rajankumar Patel (Pasco, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Silicon-carbon composite materials and related processes are disclosed that overcome the challenges for providing amorphous nano-sized silicon entrained within porous carbon. Compared to other, inferior materials and processes described in the prior art, the ma...