US Patent Issued to RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK on June 30 for "Rechargeable alkaline manganese dioxide-zinc bipolar batteries" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,078, issued on June 30, was assigned to RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK (New York).

"Rechargeable alkaline manganese dioxide-zinc bipolar batteries" was invented by Gautam G. Yadav (New York), Michael Nyce (New York), Xia Wei (New York), Roman Yakobov (New York), Joshua Gallaway (New York) and Sanjoy Banerjee (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bipolar battery having at least two electrochemical cells electrically arranged in series includes a housing, an electrolyte, a bipolar electrode, an anode, a cathode, and first and second microporous separators. The bipolar electrode comprises a first anode mater...