ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,399, issued on May 26, was assigned to Wildcat Discovery Technologies Inc. (San Diego).
"Localized high salt concentration electrolyte" was invented by Jinhua Huang (San Diego), Bin Li (San Diego), Peter Bennington (San Diego) and Tyler Stanley (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery includes an electrolyte comprised of a solvating solvent, diluent, and a lithium salt. The electrolyte is a solution having a saturation point, the lithium salt being at least 5 times more soluble in the solvating solvent than in the diluent. The diluent and the solvating solvent are immiscible at a molar ratio of diluent/solvating solvent of ...