US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Jan. 13 for "Resistive polymer membranes for energy storage devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,684, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Resistive polymer membranes for energy storage devices" was invented by Ping Liu (San Diego) and Matthew Gonzalez (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for a battery that includes an anode, a separator between the anode and the cathode, a cathode, and a membrane coupled to the separator having a mixed electronic conductor and ionic conductor. A method may include casting a membrane onto a surface, dispersing carbon nanotubes in acetone to form a dispersion, adding a powder and dibutyl phthalate...