US Patent Issued to IMEC VZW, UNIVERSITEIT GENT, CARPENTER ENGINEERED FOAMS BELGIUM on Aug. 26 for "Compressible electrode" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,071, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to IMEC VZW (Leuven, Belgium), UNIVERSITEIT GENT (Ghent, Belgium) and CARPENTER ENGINEERED FOAMS BELGIUM (Machelen, Belgium).

"Compressible electrode" was invented by Jan Vanfleteren (Ledeberg, Belgium), Herbert De Pauw (Zwijnaarde, Belgium), Matthias Willockx (Wetteren, Belgium), Hugo De Winter (Wetteren, Belgium) and Sofie Moorkens (Wetteren, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a compressible electrode comprising a stably deformable polymer layer comprising a first outer surface, a second outer surface and at least one deformed portion formed as at least one ind...