ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,177, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to UNIGRID Inc. (San Diego).

"Electrolytes, electrodes materials, and manufacturing thereof" was invented by Darren Huan Shen Tan (San Diego), Erik Austin Wu (San Diego) and Bingyu Lu (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is related to an electrolyte for a sodium secondary battery, wherein the electrolyte comprises a compound having a chemical structure including an oxygen molecule covalently bound to R1 and R2 groups (R1-O-R2), wherein each of R1 and R2 is an alkyl group or an aryl group."

The patent was filed on April 26, 2024, under Application No. 18/648,247.

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