US Patent Issued to Pacific Industrial Development on July 8 for "Electrolyte treatment system and method" (Dutch, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,643, issued on July 8, was assigned to Pacific Industrial Development Corp. (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"Electrolyte treatment system and method" was invented by Jeffery Lachapelle (Northville, Mich.), David Shepard (Canton, Mich.), Ashwin Sankaran (Arnhem, Netherlands), Wei Wu (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Yunkui Li (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus, system, and method for removing impurities from a non-aqueous electrolyte used in an electrochemical cell. The apparatus includes a vessel having one or more chambers with an inlet and an outlet configured to allow the flow of the electrolyte through the one or more chambers...