ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,206, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Battelle Savannah River Alliance LLC (Aiken, S.C.).

"Methods for manufacturing batteries and related systems" was invented by Yuefeng Luo (North Augusta, S.C.), Charles James (North Augusta, S.C.) and Prabhu Ganesan (Aiken, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, a method for manufacturing a battery includes forming a battery cell relative to a substrate using a layer-deposition sub-process, with the layer-deposition sub-process including: depositing a layer of first electrode material relative to the substrate; depositing a first layer of electrolyte material on top of the layer of ...