ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,042, issued on July 8, was assigned to FORM ENERGY INC. (Somerville, Mass.).

"Long life sealed alkaline secondary batteries" was invented by Ai Quoc Pham (Louisville, Colo.), Sandeep Nijhawan (Louisville, Colo.), Aswin K. Manohar (Louisville, Colo.), Kevin Van Galloway (Louisville, Colo.), Chenguang Yang (Louisville, Colo.), Eric E. Benson (Louisville, Colo.), Lang Mchardy (Louisville, Colo.) and Tim Rackers (Louisville, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an aspect, provided is an alkaline rechargeable battery comprising: i) a battery container sealed against the release of gas up to at least a threshold gas pressure, ii) a volum...