US Patent Issued to Board of Regents, The University of Texas System on April 29 for "Electrodepostion of metals from liquid media" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,719, issued on April 29, was assigned to Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas).

"Electrodepostion of metals from liquid media" was invented by Thomas C. Underwood (Austin, Texas), Sheila Gerardo (Austin, Texas) and Wen Song (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods for direct electrodeposition of a metal from the liquid medium. The methods include electro-reduction of lithium anions on cathode electrodes in the presence of various metal deposition selectivity enhancements. The selectivity enhancement disclosed herein comprises the presence of a magnet, a solvent that is immiscible w...