ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,346, issued on July 15, was assigned to Coreshell Technologies Inc. (San Leonardo, Calif.).

"Solution-phase deposition of thin films on conversion anodes in lithium-ion batteries" was invented by Sourav Roger Basu (Oakland, Calif.) and Jonathan Tan (San Leandro, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and compositions for the solution-phase deposition of thin films that form artificial SEIs on conversion anodes in lithium-ion batteries. In certain aspects, the solution-phase deposition methods comprise sequentially processing a lithium-ion conversion anode with multiple liquid reagents to form a monolayer or stacks of...