US Patent Issued to Battelle Energy Alliance on Dec. 16 for "Determining lithium-metal deposition and related aging in batteries" (Idaho Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,423, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Battelle Energy Alliance LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho).

"Determining lithium-metal deposition and related aging in batteries" was invented by Kevin L. Gering (Idaho Falls, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments disclosed herein include a device including a lithium-ion battery and a battery-management system. The battery-management system may be configured to measure charge states of the lithium-ion battery over a number of charging cycles at specified conditions. The battery-management system may also be configured to obtain an expression for lithium-metal-deposition (LMD)-based capacity f...