ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,106, issued on July 15, was assigned to Tesla Inc. (Austin, Texas).
"Electrolyte formulations for energy storage devices" was invented by Santhanam Raman (San Diego), Xiaomei Xi (Carlsbad, Calif.), Xiang-Rong Ye (San Diego) and Jian Hong (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An energy storage device can include a cathode, an anode, and a separator between the cathode and the anode, and an electrolyte where the electrolyte includes one or more additives and/or solvent components selected from vinylene carbonate (VC), vinyl ethylene carbonate (VEC), dimethylacetamide (DMAc), hydro fluorinated ether branched cyclic carbonate, a hydr...