US Patent Issued to The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy on April 14 for "Single-ion electrolytes for solid-state alkaline batteries" (Virginia, Hawaii, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,388, issued on April 14, was assigned to The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Arlington, Va.).

"Single-ion electrolytes for solid-state alkaline batteries" was invented by Eric G. Ruzicka (Neenah, Wis.), Hunter O. Ford (Falls Church, Va.), Brian L. Chaloux (Alexandria, Va.), Megan B. Sassin (Honolulu), Jeffrey W. Long (Alexandria, Va.) and Debra R. Rolison (Arlington, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are materials for use in battery separators. They include copolymers of a divinylbenzene and one or both of the monomers below (non-linked and linked). R is an n...