US Patent Issued to RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK on July 22 for "Ion selective membrane for selective ion penetration in alkaline batteries" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,188, issued on July 22, was assigned to RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK (New York).

"Ion selective membrane for selective ion penetration in alkaline batteries" was invented by Jinchao Huang (New York), Gautam G. Yadav (New York), Michael Nyce (New York) and Sanjoy Banerjee (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An alkaline battery comprises an anode, a cathode, a separator disposed between the anode and the cathode, and an electrolyte in fluid communication with the anode, the cathode, and the separator. The separator comprises at least one ion selective layer that can include at least one of graphene, graph...