US Patent Issued to The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army on May 5 for "Alcohol-based electrolytes for highly reversible Zn metal batteries" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,620,628, issued on May 5, was assigned to The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington).

"Alcohol-based electrolytes for highly reversible Zn metal batteries" was invented by Lin Ma (Silver Spring, Md.), Marshall A. Schroeder (Pasadena, Md.), Oleg A. Borodin (Laurel, Md.), Travis P. Pollard (Rockville, Md.), Michael S. Ding (Potomac, Md.) and Kang Xu (Potomac, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrochemical cell includes a negative electrode including a metal, metal alloy, or an electrode active material that reversibly intercalates and de-intercalates cations; a positive electrode including (i...