US Patent Issued to Factorial on Nov. 4 for "Electrochemical cell having electrolyte with polymer localized on electrode surface" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,250, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Factorial Inc. (Billerica, Mass.).

"Electrochemical cell having electrolyte with polymer localized on electrode surface" was invented by Yiqing Huang (Lexington, Mass.), Jia Du (Burlington, Mass.) and Dong Ren (Woburn, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an electrochemical cell having a polymer solid electrolyte comprising a polymer localized on surface of an electrode. In one aspect, the localized polymer physically decreases or prevents exposure of freshly cracked electrode to a flammable solvent under extreme conditions, thus leading to an improved safety profile of the cell. In ...