US Patent Issued to The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy on Sept. 23 for "Methods for battery internal short circuit trigger and improved performance by temperature gradients" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,669, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Arlington, Va.).

"Methods for battery internal short circuit trigger and improved performance by temperature gradients" was invented by Corey T. Love (Alexandria, Va.), Rachel E. Carter (Alexandria, Va.) and Robert W Atkinson (Alexandria, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of: providing an electrochemical energy storage device having a first electrode and a second electrode; and simultaneously: a) maintaining the first electrode at a first temperature; b) maintaining the second electrode at a...