US Patent Issued to South 8 Technologies on March 24 for "Conductive power rod for electrochemical cell" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,873, issued on March 24, was assigned to South 8 Technologies Inc. (San Diego).

"Conductive power rod for electrochemical cell" was invented by Cyrus S. Rustomji (San Diego), Josh Lukens (San Diego) and Nick Wayland (Encinitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a design for an electrochemical energy-storage device. The device includes an electrode assembly with a separator that separates a positive electrode and a negative electrode. These electrodes and separator are radially coiled about a central axis to form a central void. A positive electrode current collector is in electrical contact with the positive ...