US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on April 29 for "Rechargeable metal halide battery with intercalation anode" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,877, issued on April 29, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Rechargeable metal halide battery with intercalation anode" was invented by Jangwoo Kim (San Jose, Calif.) and Andy Theodora Tek (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A metal halide battery includes an intercalation anode, a cathode that includes a metal halide incorporated into an electrically conductive material, an oxidizing gas, and an electrolyte in contact with the intercalation anode, the cathode, and the oxidizing gas. The battery has a cycle life reaching 1000 cycles at a current density that enables the battery to charg...