US Patent Issued to Nanode Battery Technologies on July 8 for "Tin alloy sheets as negative electrodes for non-aqueous Li and Na-ion batteries" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,074, issued on July 8, was assigned to Nanode Battery Technologies Ltd. (Edmonton, Canada).

"Tin alloy sheets as negative electrodes for non-aqueous Li and Na-ion batteries" was invented by Willem Peter Kalisvaart (Edmonton, Canada), Sayed Youssef Sayed Nagy (Troy, Mich.), Jillian Mary Buriak (Edmonton, Canada) and Bing Cao (Edmonton, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention relates to materials for the negative electrode in non-aqueous rechargeable alkali-ion batteries in free-standing form. In particular, this invention relates to the use of metal ribbon that is produced by melt spinning directly as a battery electrode. ...