US Patent Issued to Lockheed Martin Energy on March 18 for "Electrolyte balancing strategies for flow batteries" (Massachusetts, Texas, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,368, issued on March 18, was assigned to Lockheed Martin Energy LLC (Bethesda, Md.).

"Electrolyte balancing strategies for flow batteries" was invented by Steven Y. Reece (Cambridge, Mass.), Paravastu Badrinarayanan (Cypress, Texas), Nitin Tyagi (San Jose, Calif.) and Timothy B. Grejtak (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is directed to a redox flow battery comprising at least one electrochemical cell in fluid communication with a balancing cell, said balancing cell comprising: a first and second half-cell chamber, wherein the first half-cell chamber comprises a first electrode in contact with a first aqueou...