US Patent Issued to Tesla on Dec. 30 for "Compositions and methods for dry electrode films including elastic polymer binders" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,475, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Tesla Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Compositions and methods for dry electrode films including elastic polymer binders" was invented by Joon Ho Shin (San Diego) and Hieu Minh Duong (Rosemead, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are dry process electrode films, and energy storage devices incorporating the same, including an elastic polymer binder. In some embodiments, the dry process electrode films are PTFE-free or comprise an insubstantial amount of PTFE. The electrode films exhibit improved mechanical and processing characteristics. Also provided are methods for processing such ela...