ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,387, issued on July 15, was assigned to The MITRE Corp. (McLean, Va.).
"Carbon fiber battery electrodes with ionic liquid and gel electrolytes" was invented by Nicholas Hudak (Washington).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is directed to liquid monomer mixtures that comprise at least one metal salt, at least one ionic liquid, at least one monomer, and at least one polymer initiator. The present invention is also directed to methods of making gel polymer electrolytes from the liquid monomer mixtures and methods of using the gel polymer electrolytes in batteries and other electrochemical technologies."
The patent was ...