ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,269, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Enevate Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Silicon-based energy storage devices with fluorinated electrolyte formulations" was invented by Liwen Ji (San Diego), Benjamin Yong Park (Mission Viejo, Calif.) and Heidi Anderson (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Electrolytes and electrolyte additives for energy storage devices comprising fluorinated electrolyte additive compounds are disclosed. The energy storage device comprises a first electrode and a second electrode, where one or both of the first electrode and the second electrode is a Si-based electrode, a separator between t...