US Patent Issued to Arizona Board of Regents for and on behalf of Arizona State University on Sept. 30 for "Metal-air cell with performance enhancing additive" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,510, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Arizona Board of Regents for and on behalf of Arizona State University (Tempe, Ariz.).

"Metal-air cell with performance enhancing additive" was invented by Cody A. Friesen (Fort McDowell, Ariz.) and Daniel Buttry (Tempe, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods drawn to an electrochemical cell comprising a low temperature ionic liquid comprising positive ions and negative ions and a performance enhancing additive added to the low temperature ionic liquid. The additive dissolves in the ionic liquid to form cations, which are coordinated with one or more negative ions forming io...