ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,537, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to 24M Technologies Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Electrolyte including electrolyte solvent, fluoroether, and bis(fluorosulfonyl) salt, and lithium metal electrochemical cells including the same" was invented by Junhua Song (Sudbury, Mass.), Junzheng Chen (Concord, Mass.), Dhanya Puthusseri (Millis, Mass.) and Frank Yongzhen Fan (Arlington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices, and methods described herein relate to electrolyte formulations and the incorporation thereof into batteries. In some aspects, an electrolyte composition can comprise between about 10 wt % and about 42 wt % o...