US Patent Issued to Lawrence Livermore National Security on Oct. 21 for "Systems and methods for laser additive manufacturing for structured battery electrodes" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,532, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Lawrence Livermore National Security LLC (Livermore, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for laser additive manufacturing for structured battery electrodes" was invented by Jianchao Ye (Tracy, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a system for making an electrically conductive battery component. The system uses a metal layer forming a planar metal substrate, and a powder deposition component for applying a powder to form a powder layer on the planar metal substrate. A laser is used and configured to generate a laser beam to selectively sinter portions, or all, of the...