US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America on April 8 for "Ceramic-soft composites for solid-state silicon anodes" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,784, issued on April 8, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas).

"Ceramic-soft composites for solid-state silicon anodes" was invented by Timothy S. Arthur (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Nikhilendra Singh (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Rana Mohtadi (Northville, Mich.) and Oscar Tutusaus (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An anode composite (AC) for use in an anode for solid-state lithium batteries includes particles of a silicon active material, a carbon additive for electrical conductivity, and a solid electrolyte that combines solid elastic electrolyte (SEE) with a solid non-elastic electr...