US Patent Issued to GROUP14 TECHNOLOGIES on April 7 for "Passivated silicon-carbon composite materials" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,597, issued on April 7, was assigned to GROUP14 TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Woodinville, Wash.).

"Passivated silicon-carbon composite materials" was invented by Henry R. Costantino (Woodinville, Wash.), Avery J. Sakshaug (Snohomish, Wash.), Abirami Dhanabalan (Bothell, Wash.), Christopher Timmons (Monroe, Wash.) and Aaron M. Feaver (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Passivated 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 materi...