ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,344, issued on April 15, was assigned to 24M Technologies Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for minimizing and preventing dendrite formation in electrochemical cells" was invented by Junzheng Chen (Concord, Mass.), Naoki Ota (Lexington, Mass.), Chad Alan Hartzog (Columbus, Ind.), Xiaoming Liu (Newton, Mass.), Michelle Robyn Brouwer (Woburn, Mass.), Anthony D'Angelo (Medford, Mass.), Daniel Salazar (Brookline, Mass.), Timothy Allen Hans (Perry, Fla.) and Junhua Song (Watertown, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein relate to electrochemical cells with dendrite prevention mechanisms. In some aspec...