US Patent Issued to LYTEN on Oct. 7 for "Electrolyte systems including chalcogenides and compound containing electron withdrawing group, and electrochemical cell including the same" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,194, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to LYTEN INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Electrolyte systems including chalcogenides and compound containing electron withdrawing group, and electrochemical cell including the same" was invented by Jared Long (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Babu Ganguli (Santa Clara, Calif.), Alexander Klevay (San Jose, Calif.) and Amruth Bhargav (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Myriad problems with state of the art lithium based batteries, particularly electrolyte systems thereof, including but not limited to polysulfide shuttling, formation of lithium dendrites and dead lithium during stripping and plating, th...