US Patent Issued to Wayne State University, Friedrich Schiller University Jena on Aug. 4 for "Inhibition of lithium dendrite growth using ultra-thin sub-nanometer porous carbon nanomembrane in conventional and solid-state lithium-ion batteries" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,644, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Wayne State University (Detroit) and Friedrich Schiller University Jena (Jena, Germany).

"Inhibition of lithium dendrite growth using ultra-thin sub-nanometer porous carbon nanomembrane in conventional and solid-state lithium-ion batteries" was invented by Leela Mohana Reddy Arava (Troy, Mich.), Naresh K. Thangavel (Allen Park, Mich.), Sathish Rajendran (Detroit), Zian Tang (Jena, Germany), Antony George (Jena, Germany) and Andrey Turchanin (Jena, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exemplary lithium-ion battery may include an anode, a cathode, and a separator between the anode and cathode....