US Patent Issued to Navitas Systems on Oct. 14 for "High loading electrodes" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,731, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Navitas Systems LLC (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"High loading electrodes" was invented by Pu Zhang (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Peter Aurora (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Michael Wixom (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are electrodes that may be used in electrochemical cells that incorporate relatively high loading of active material while also demonstrating excellent adhesion, resistance to mechanical breakdown, and also offer improved capacity retention, particularly at discharge rates of C/2 or greater."

The patent was filed on Nov. 1, 2023, under Application No. 18/385,972.

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