ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,244, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Designs of high-power gel-assisted bipolar solid-state battery" was invented by Yong Lu (Shanghai), Zhe Li (Shanghai), Mengyan Hou (Shanghai), Qili Su (Shanghai), Meiyuan Wu (Shanghai), Xiaochao Que (Shanghai), Haijing Liu (Shanghai) and Si Chen (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A high-power gel-assisted battery stack that cycles lithium ions is provided with two terminal electrodes having opposite polarities and at least one bipolar electrode assembly disposed therebetween. A first electrode is disposed on a first side of a bipolar current c...