US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on July 8 for "Self-heating bipolar solid-state battery" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,049, issued on July 8, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Self-heating bipolar solid-state battery" was invented by Zhe Li (Shanghai), Xiaochao Que (Shanghai), Haijing Liu (Shanghai), Yong Lu (Shanghai), Meiyuan Wu (Shanghai) and Jingyuan Liu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a solid-state battery including at least one current collector that is in communication with one or more switches configured to move between open and closed positions, where the open position corresponds to a first operational state of the solid-state battery and the closed position corresponds t...