US Patent Issued to University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Honda Motor on Oct. 28 for "Lithium secondary battery and method of manufacture" (Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,750, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to University of Central Florida Research Foundation Inc. (Orlando, Fla.) and Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Lithium secondary battery and method of manufacture" was invented by Akihiro Kushima (Orlando, Fla.), Supriya Koul (Orlando, Fla.), Yoshiya Fujiwara (Wako, Japan), Yoshiyuki Morita (Wako, Japan), Fumika Fujisaki (Wako, Japan) and Hiroshi Ogasa (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lithium (Li) secondary battery having a Li buffer layer compressed between a Li metal anode and an electrolyte of the battery cell and a porous structure positioned between the Li metal anode and a current...