US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Dec. 23 for "High capacity compact lithium thin film battery" (New York, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,137, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"High capacity compact lithium thin film battery" was invented by Paul S. Andry (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.), Eric Peter Lewandowski (White Plains, N.Y.) and Dana Alexa Totir (Sandy Hook, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of forming a thin film battery may include forming may include forming a trench in a substrate, depositing a stencil on top surface of the substrate, wherein the stencil is aligned with the trench, depositing a cathode layer in the trench, wherein the cathode layer is in direct contact with the stencil, and compress...