US Patent Issued to Pacific Industrial Development on Sept. 23 for "Inorganic materials for composite separator in electrochemical cells" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,703, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Pacific Industrial Development Corp. (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"Inorganic materials for composite separator in electrochemical cells" was invented by Shuang Gao (Ann Arbor, Mich.), David Shepard (Canton, Mich.), Yunkui Li (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Anatoly Bortun (Ypsilanti, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrochemical cell that includes a positive electrode with an active material acting as a cathode; a negative electrode with an active material acting as an anode; a non-aqueous electrolyte; and a separator placed between the positive electrode and negative electrode. In one embodiment, the...