US Patent Issued to QuantumScape Battery on July 1 for "Solid state catholyte or electrolyte for energy storage devices" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,863, issued on July 1, was assigned to QuantumScape Battery Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Solid state catholyte or electrolyte for energy storage devices" was invented by Cheng-Chieh Chao (San Jose, Calif.), Zhebo Chen (San Jose, Calif.), Tim Holme (Mountain View, Calif.), Marie A. Mayer (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Gilbert N. Riley Jr. (Marlborough, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides an energy storage device comprising a cathode region or other element. The device has a major active region comprising a plurality of first active regions spatially disposed within the cathode region. The major active region expan...