US Patent Issued to Janak H. Handa on June 24 for "Aqueous zinc lithium-ion battery and method for making same" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,185, issued on June 24, was assigned to Janak H. Handa (Toronto).

"Aqueous zinc lithium-ion battery and method for making same" was invented by Zhongwei Chen (Waterloo, Canada), Ali Ghorbani Kashkooli (Waterloo, Canada) and Sepehr Khazraei (Waterloo, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery cell and method for manufacturing the same are provided. The battery cell includes a binder-free dough-like cathode separated from a sponge zinc anode by a separator and a hybrid aqueous electrolyte."

The patent was filed on Aug. 9, 2019, under Application No. 17/267,390.

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