US Patent Issued to SILA NANOTECHNOLOGIES, Georgia Tech Research on Sept. 1 for "Metal sulfide composite materials for batteries" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,827, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to SILA NANOTECHNOLOGIES INC. (Alameda, Calif.) and Georgia Tech Research Corp. (Atlanta).

"Metal sulfide composite materials for batteries" was invented by Gleb Yushin (Atlanta), Feixiang Wu (Atlanta) and Hyea Kim (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Lithium-ion batteries are provided that variously comprise anode and cathode electrodes, an electrolyte, a separator, and, in some designs, a protective layer. In some designs, at least one of the electrodes may comprise a composite of (i) Li2S and (ii) conductive carbon that is embedded in the core of the composite. In some designs, the protectiv...