ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,837, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Patterned electrodes" was invented by Celia Cunningham (Northville, Mich.), Andrew Robert Drews (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Ali Rashti (Canton, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect of the disclosure, a method is presented. The method involves coating a conductive substrate with an electrode slurry of solvent, active material, binder, and additives to form a wet electrode. The wet electrode is injected with a column of miscible non-solvent fluid into a surface of the wet electrode to displace the electrode slurry around the column and ini...