US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 23 for "Porous ceramic separator materials and formation processes" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,665, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Porous ceramic separator materials and formation processes" was invented by Lin Ma (Santa Clara, Calif.), Mikyong Yoo (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Richard M. Mank (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Energy storage devices, battery cells, and batteries may include a battery cell component that may be or include a ceramic layer produced by methods including admixing a ceramic with a water-soluble dispersant to form a first mixture. The methods may include admixing an organic polymeric dispersant with the first mixture to form a second mixture. The metho...