US Patent Issued to Honda Motor, California Institute of Technology on Dec. 30 for "Fluoride-ion electrochemical cell having electrochemically active structure with fluoride-containing shell" (American, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,462, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo) and California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, Calif.).

"Fluoride-ion electrochemical cell having electrochemically active structure with fluoride-containing shell" was invented by Nam Hawn Chou (New Berlin, Wis.), Kaoru Omichi (Tochigi, Japan), Ryan McKenney (Roseville, Minn.), Qingmin Xu (Dublin, Ohio), Christopher Brooks (Dublin, Ohio), Simon C. Jones (Whittier, Calif.), Isabelle M. Darolles (Azusa, Calif.) and Hongjin Tan (Pasadena, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of making core-shell and yolk-shell nanoparticles, and to electrodes comprising t...