ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,640, issued on July 1, was assigned to Elevated Materials US LLC (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for the in-line measurement of alkali metal-containing structures and alkali ion-containing structures" was invented by Subramanya P. Herle (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to systems and methods for in-line measurement of alkali metal-containing structures or alkali ion-containing structures of, e.g., electrodes. In an embodiment, a system for processing an electrode is provided. The system includes a first processing chamber for forming an electrode c...