ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,871, issued on May 27, was assigned to STOREDOT LTD. (Herzeliya, Israel).

"Self healing lithium-ion battery" was invented by Ido Herzog (Herzeliya, Israel), John Dominic Herszman (Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel) and Eran Sella (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ion-lithium battery that may include an anode, a cathode, and at least one out of an anode related self-healing combination and a solid electrolyte interphase (SEI) self-healing combination; wherein the SEI related self-healing combination comprises a SEI self-healing additive, a SEI forming moiety and a first linker for linking the SEI self-healing additive to the SE...