ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,986, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to VoltaXplore Inc. (Montreal).

"Rechargeable cylindrical battery with graphene centerpin, and methods of producing the same" was invented by Nima Moghimian (Saint Laurent, Canada) and Soroush Nazarpour (Saint-Laurent, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein relate to batteries with centerpins. In some aspects, a battery can include an electrode assembly formed in an annulus with a void volume in a center of the annulus, the electrode assembly including an anode and a cathode, a centerpin disposed in the void volume, the centerpin including graphene particles suspended i...