ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,818, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to SYENSQO SA (Brussels).

"Anode-less lithium ion battery" was invented by Ji-Ae Choi (Seoul, South Korea), Guillaume Muller (Woluwe-Saint-Pierre, Belgium), Lawrence Alan Hough (Seoul, South Korea), Hyun-Cheol Lee (Suwon, South Korea), Hee-Sung Choi (Seoul, South Korea) and So-Young Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention pertains to an anode-less lithium ion battery comprising a) a cathode comprising a cathode current collector and a cathode electro-active material on the cathode current collector; b) an anode current collector; c) a liquid electrolyte composi...