US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology on July 1 for "Bilayer component for a lithium battery" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,827, issued on July 1, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Bilayer component for a lithium battery" was invented by Won Seok Chang (Mountain View, Calif.), Zachary Hood (Cambridge, Mass.), Jennifer Rupp (Cambridge, Mass.) and Lincoln Miara (Lincoln, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A component for a lithium battery including a first layer including a lithium garnet having a porosity of 0 percent to less than 25 percent, based on a total volume of the first layer; and a second layer on the first layer and having a porosity of 25 perce...