US Patent Issued to The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army on Aug. 12 for "Hydrochloric acidic surface treatment for multivalent battery metal electrode" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,119, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington).

"Hydrochloric acidic surface treatment for multivalent battery metal electrode" was invented by Lin Ma (Silver Spring, Md.), Marshall A. Schroeder (Pasadena, Md.), Oleg A. Borodin (Laurel, Md.), Travis P. Pollard (Rockville, Md.) and Kang Xu (Potomac, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To improve the performance of certain multivalent metal electrodes, the electrodes can be treated prior to use in an electrochemical cell by applying a solution comprising an acid to a surface of a multivalent metal electrode, ...