US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University on May 5 for "Ultralight, fire-extinguishing and temperature modulated current collector devices and method therefor" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,620,632, issued on May 5, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Ultralight, fire-extinguishing and temperature modulated current collector devices and method therefor" was invented by Yi Cui (Stanford, Calif.), Yusheng Ye (Stanford, Calif.), Lien-yang Chou (Stanford, Calif.), Hiang Kwee Lee (Stanford, Calif.), Yayuan Liu (Stanford, Calif.), Dingchang Lin (Stanford, Calif.) and Wenxiao Huang (Stanford, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example implementations include a current collector device with a first substantially planar metallic layer including a foil material, and a ...