US Patent Issued to Rivian IP Holdings on Sept. 23 for "Stable lithium metal sulfide coatings for solid-state batteries" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,625, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Rivian IP Holdings LLC.

"Stable lithium metal sulfide coatings for solid-state batteries" was invented by Rubayyat Mahbub (Palo Alto, Calif.), Muratahan Aykol (San Jose, Calif.), Terri Lin (Fremont, Calif.), Karthik Bhatt (San Jose, Calif.) and Forrest Gittleson (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrochemical cell includes a solid-state electrolyte, an anode, and an interfacial layer between the solid-state electrolyte and the anode, wherein the interfacial layer includes a lithium metal sulfide."

The patent was filed on May 16, 2022, under Application No. 17/744,998...