US Patent Issued to Our Next Energy on Feb. 10 for "Long cycle life lithium metal and anode-free cells" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,809, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Our Next Energy Inc. (Novi, Mich.).

"Long cycle life lithium metal and anode-free cells" was invented by Stephen Glazier (Halifax, Canada), Larry Beck (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Steven Kaye (Oakland, Calif.), Mujeeb Ijaz (West Bloomfield, Mich.), Hezhen Xie (West Bloomfield, Mich.) and Yadong Huang (Halifax, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for providing controlling in a repeatable manner a plurality of anode-free or lithium metal cells in a power-supply system. The cells are connected in series in one or more high energy density hybrid modules connected in parallel. Each high...