ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,079, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Sakuu Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Hybrid lithium metal cell with ionic liquid integrated cathode" was invented by Joykumar Thokchom (Marietta, Ga.), Ali Modjtahedi (Santa Clara, Calif.), Yongtao Meng (Fremont, Calif.), Aditya Upreti (San Jose, Calif.) and Muhammad Tariq (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing a calendered cathode structure for a hybrid lithium metal cell includes depositing a first cathode coating layer without ionic liquid onto a cathode current collector, depositing a second cathode coating layer with ionic liquid onto the first coating layer...