US Patent Issued to Twelve Benefit on Sept. 23 for "Ionic polymers and copolymers" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,392, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Twelve Benefit Corp. (Berkeley, Calif.).

"Ionic polymers and copolymers" was invented by Lihui Wang (Berkeley, Calif.), Ziyang Huo (Moraga, Calif.) and Chengtian Shen (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to compositions including a first polymeric structure having a structure of Formula (I), (II), (III), (IV), or (V):or a salt thereof, and a second polymeric structure having a structure of Formula (X) or Formula (XI):or a salt thereof, in which at least one of these can include an ionizable moiety or an ionic moiety, for use in an electrochemical cell....