US Patent Issued to Battelle Memorial Institute on Feb. 10 for "Hydrofluorocarbon (HFC)-based safe electrolyte for secondary batteries" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,798, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Wash.).

"Hydrofluorocarbon (HFC)-based safe electrolyte for secondary batteries" was invented by Jie Xiao (Richland, Wash.), Bingbin Wu (Richland, Wash.), Wei Wang (West Richland, Wash.), Dianying Liu (Richland, Wash.) and Ruozhu Feng (Richland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrolyte composition comprising a solution comprising an active salt; and a solvent portion that comprises a first solvent and a second solvent, wherein the first solvent is a hydrofluorocarbon compound having a structure of CxHyFz, wherein x is from 4 to 10, y is from 1 t...