US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Dec. 9 for "Method for coating a metal layer such as lithium metal on a web such as a current collector foil" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,470, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Method for coating a metal layer such as lithium metal on a web such as a current collector foil" was invented by Yaoyu Ren (Beijing), Ming Wang (Sterling Heights, Mich.), Shaomao Xu (Sterling Heights, Mich.) and Ryan Curtis Sekol (Grosse Pointe Woods, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for coating a web with a metal layer includes heating a metal in a container to create molten metal. The metal is selected from a group consisting of lithium (Li), sodium (Na), potassium (K), indium (In), tin (Sn), cadmium (Cd), zinc (Zn), and lead (Pb). T...