ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,544, issued on Sept. 30.
"Synthetic proton-conductive additives for battery electrolytes" was invented by Vesselin Bojidarov Naydenov (Sofia, Bulgaria), Dag Arild Valand (Wachtberg, Germany), Boris Ivanov Monahov (Apex, N.C.) and Boris Todorov Shirov (Sofia, Bulgaria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrolyte system for improving electrolyte performance characteristics is provided. The electrolyte system includes an electrolyte, and a synthetic proton-conductive polymer additive. A cell comprising said electrolyte system and a method of making the same is also disclosed herein. The synthetic proton-conductive polymer additive may...