US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America on July 28 for "Non-aqueous electrolytes for batteries" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,121, issued on July 28, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas).

"Non-aqueous electrolytes for batteries" was invented by John G. Muldoon (Saline, Mich.), Patrick J. Bonnick (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Mikhail Redko (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A non-aqueous electrolyte, with a coulombic efficiency with respect to lithium of at least 80%, that includes a Group 1 salt dissolved in a mixture containing two sulfone compounds, a mixture containing a sulfone compound and a sultone compound, and/or a mixture containing a sulfone compound and a sulfonamide compound. The Group...