US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Toyota Jidosha on July 14 for "Anodically stable and highly conducting borane solid state battery electrolytes" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,196, issued on July 14, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota Aichi-ken, Japan).

"Anodically stable and highly conducting borane solid state battery electrolytes" was invented by Rana Mohtadi (Northville, Mich.) and Oscar Tutusaus (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrolyte includes a composite salt mixture with a halogenated boron cluster salt. The halogenated boron cluster salt includes a cation selected from Li+, Na+, Mg2+, Ca2+, Zn2+ and Al3+, and a halogenated boron cluster anion. The halogenated boron cluster anion has a str...