US Patent Issued to PURE LITHIUM, THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK on Aug. 4 for "Lithium metal battery" (Massachusetts, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,582, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to PURE LITHIUM Corp. (Chicago) and THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK (Albany, N.Y.).

"Lithium metal battery" was invented by Emilie Bodoin (Charlestown, Mass.), M. Stanley Whittingham (Albany, N.Y.), Krystal J. Lee (Albany, N.Y.), Carrie Siu (Albany, N.Y.) and Fengxia Xin (Albany, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some aspects, the present disclosure provides a lithium metal battery having a negative electrode that comprises a substantially pure lithium metal and a positive electrode that comprises the epsilon polymorph of vanadyl phosphate (Epsilon-VOPO4). The lithi...