US Patent Issued to Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune (IISER Pune), TCG Centres for Research and Education in Science and Technology on Dec. 16 for "Microgradient patterned carbon coated current collector for alkali metal battery and method of preparation thereof" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,244, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune (IISER Pune) (Pune, India) and TCG Centres for Research and Education in Science and Technology (Kolkata, India).

"Microgradient patterned carbon coated current collector for alkali metal battery and method of preparation thereof" was invented by Minal Wable (Velapur, India), Mohammad Furquan (Kanth, India), Abhik Banerjee (Newtown, India) and Satishchandra Ogale (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to in-plane modulated, microgradient-patterned (MGP) carbon-coated metal surface as a current collector...