US Patent Issued to Medtronic on Nov. 3 for "Gelling cathode and gelled electrolyte and method of forming the same" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,785,073, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Gelling cathode and gelled electrolyte and method of forming the same" was invented by Hui Ye (Maple Grove, Minn.), Prabhakar A. Tamirisa (Brooklyn Park, Minn.), Kaimin Chen (Shoreview, Minn.) and Gaurav Jain (Edina, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of forming an electrochemical cell includes mixing an active material, a conductive material, a binder, and a solvent to provide a cathode slurry. The method further includes heating the cathode slurry to provide a cathode mixture and grinding the cathode mixture to provide a ground cathode mixture. The meth...