US Patent Issued to RENA Technologies on June 30 for "Electrode, use thereof, battery, and process for producing an electrode" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,077, issued on June 30, was assigned to RENA Technologies GmbH (Gutenbach, Germany).

"Electrode, use thereof, battery, and process for producing an electrode" was invented by Benedikt Straub (Gutenbach, Germany) and John Burschik (Gutenbach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrode for a lithium-ion battery. The electrode has at least one porous silicon layer and a copper layer. There is also described a battery with such an electrode, a method for producing an electrode of this kind, and the use of an electrode of this kind in a battery."

The patent was filed on Feb. 11, 2021, under Application No. 17/799,135.

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