US Patent Issued to UCHICAGO ARGONNE, NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY on April 8 for "Formation of lithium-metal-oxygen layer and removal of lithium carbonate on solid state electrolytes" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,101, issued on April 8, was assigned to UCHICAGO ARGONNE LLC (Chicago) and NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY (Evanston, Ill.).

"Formation of lithium-metal-oxygen layer and removal of lithium carbonate on solid state electrolytes" was invented by Donghyeon Kang (Willowbrook, Ill.), Jeffrey W. Elam (Elmhurst, Ill.), Joseph A. Libera (Clarendon Hills, Ill.), Yujia Liang (Lisle, Ill.), HackSung Kim (Naperville, Ill.) and Anil U. Mane (Naperville, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for forming a lithium-metal-oxygen film on a lithium SSE. A metal-ligand complex is exposed to the SSE such as for 30-600 seconds in a chemical vapor transfer...