US Patent Issued to Alliance for Sustainable Energy on May 27 for "Electrolyte components for charging of lithium-ion batteries" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,881, issued on May 27, was assigned to Alliance for Sustainable Energy LLC (Golden, Colo.).

"Electrolyte components for charging of lithium-ion batteries" was invented by Shriram Santhanagopalan (Broomfield, Colo.) and Ryan Ray Brow (Denver).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure includes bridged bicyclic compounds and other non-flat organic molecules that have the ability to solvate lithium salts in higher concentrations without significant changes to the electrolyte viscosity which assists in improving the fast charge capability of lithium-ion cells. Using non-flat polar molecules may enable higher solubility of the s...