US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Nov. 25 for "Method for tuning lithium wettability of an anode current collector using plasma surface modification" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,802, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Method for tuning lithium wettability of an anode current collector using plasma surface modification" was invented by Ming Wang (Sterling Heights, Mich.), Mary Gilliam (Farmington Hills, Mich.), Shaomao Xu (Sterling Heights, Mich.), Diptak Bhattacharya (Royal Oak, Mich.) and Xiaowei Yu (Farmington Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing an anode electrode includes supplying an anode current collector; coating a first portion of the anode current collector with a precursor coating; not coating a second portion of the...