ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,185, issued on July 22, was assigned to Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek TNO ('s-Gravenhage, Netherlands).

"Hybrid solid state electrolyte" was invented by Michal Tulodziecki (Woluwe-Saint-Lambert, Belgium), Sandeep Unnikrishnan (Veldhoven, Netherlands) and Lucas Augustinus Haverkate (Utrecht, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure concerns a solid state electrolyte for providing an ion conductive connection between a negative and positive electrode in a battery, the solid state electrolyte comprising: an ion conductive matrix comprising a polymer, and a metal salt dis...