ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,400, issued on May 26, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.).
"Liquid and solid electrolytes with lithium-fluorine solvation structure for lithium-metal batteries" was invented by Zhenan Bao (Stanford, Calif.), Yi Cui (Stanford, Calif.), Zhiao Yu (Stanford, Calif.), Snehashis Choudhury (Stanford, Calif.) and Hansen Wang (Stanford, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are solvents for an electrolyte of a battery comprising fluorinated compounds of the present disclosure, batteries comprising: an anode structure including an anode current collector, a cathode s...