US Patent Issued to Enpower Greentech, Board of Regents, The University of Texas System on June 3 for "Electrolyte membrane for an alkali metal battery" (Texas, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,831, issued on June 3, was assigned to Enpower Greentech Inc. (New York) and Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas).

"Electrolyte membrane for an alkali metal battery" was invented by Henghui Xu (Austin, Texas), Yutao Li (Austin, Texas), Yong Che (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and John B. Goodenough (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an electrolyte membrane for an alkali metal or an alkali metal ion battery, comprising: a composite membrane comprising an ionically conductive polymer; an alkali metal salt; and a filler comprising a carbon nitride nanosheet, an oxygenated carbon...