US Patent Issued to QuantumScape Battery on Nov. 25 for "Processes and materials for casting and sintering green garnet thin films" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,771, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to QuantumScape Battery Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Processes and materials for casting and sintering green garnet thin films" was invented by Oleh Karpenko (San Jose, Calif.), Gengfu Xu (San Jose, Calif.), Niall Donnelly (San Jose, Calif.), Sriram Iyer (San Jose, Calif.) and Timothy Holme (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Set forth herein are processes and materials for making ceramic thin films by casting ceramic source powders and precursor reactants, binders, and functional additives into unsintered thin films and subsequently sintering the thin films under controlled atmospheres ...