ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,721, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Patterning of active material layer of electrode during continuous extrusion" was invented by Chuanlong Wang (Troy, Mich.), Xiaowei Yu (Farmington Hills, Mich.), Ming Wang (Sterling Heights, Mich.), Xiaosong Huang (Novi, Mich.) and Ryan Curtis Sekol (Grosse Pointe Woods, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing patterned electrodes includes extruding a mixture including an active material, a conductive additive, a binder, and a solvent from an extruder to form an active material layer; laminating the active material layer an...