US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Aug. 12 for "Lithium ion conducting protective film and method of use" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,134, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Lithium ion conducting protective film and method of use" was invented by Mariya Khiterer (Cambridge, Mass.), Paula T. Hammond (Newton, Mass.) and Sun Hwa Lee (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lithium ion conducting protective film produced using a layer-by-layer assembly process. The lithium ion conducting protective film is assembled on a substrate by a sequential exposure of the substrate to a first poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO) layer including a cross-linking ...