US Patent Issued to GM Global Technology Operations on July 15 for "Method and system for charging a lithium metal battery" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,585, issued on July 15, was assigned to GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit).

"Method and system for charging a lithium metal battery" was invented by Jing Gao (Rochester, Mich.) and Brian J. Koch (Berkley, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The concepts herein provide a method and associated system for charging a battery, such as a vehicle battery that is part of a propulsion system. The method includes determining a charging current profile for a lithium metal anode of the battery, determining an increasing current charging protocol based upon the charging current profile and charging the battery based upon the increasin...