US Patent Issued to Navitas Systems on July 1 for "Compositions and methods for electrode fabrication" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,861, issued on July 1, was assigned to Navitas Systems LLC (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"Compositions and methods for electrode fabrication" was invented by Michael Wixom (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Bob Sosik (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Pu Zhang (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are compositions and methods of malting and using free-standing electrode films for electrodes by a dry process. The process for forming an electrode includes combining a processing additive and an active electrode material or fibrillizable binder to form an electrode precursor material, where the processing additive has a surface roughness and a porosity an...