US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on July 1 for "Energy storage method using aluminum oxide protected lithium metal tunable 3D silicon batteries" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,831, issued on July 1, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Energy storage method using aluminum oxide protected lithium metal tunable 3D silicon batteries" was invented by John Collins (Tarrytown, N.Y.), Stephen W. Bedell (Wappingers Falls, N.Y.), John Ott (Greenwood Lake, N.Y.) and Devendra K. Sadana (Pleasantville, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more trenches in a silicon substrate have an electrically active surface at a trench base and metal layer disposed on the electrically active surface. Precursor materials are disposed and/or formed on the metal layer in the trench. An anode is p...