US Patent Issued to INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE on Dec. 23 for "Composition, negative electrode and a battery employing the same" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,153, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Composition, negative electrode and a battery employing the same" was invented by Guan-Lin Lai (Qionglin Township, Taiwan), Chi-Yang Chao (Taipei, Taiwan), Ting-Ju Yeh (Taipei, Taiwan), Chi-Ju Cheng (Zhudong Township, Taiwan) and Guan-Fu Liu (Keelung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A polymer, a composition, a negative electrode and a battery employing the same are provided. The polymer has a repeat unit represented by Formula (I)wherein R1 is hydrogen or acetyl group; and, each R2 is independently hydrogen, -SO3H, or -SO3Li, an...