US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH-OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION on Sept. 23 for "Electro-spun sulfur wire for fabricating mattes of lithium sulfur batteries" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,617, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH-OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION (Pittsburgh).

"Electro-spun sulfur wire for fabricating mattes of lithium sulfur batteries" was invented by Prashant N. Kumta (Pittsburgh), Prashanth Jampani Hanumantha (Pittsburgh), Bharat Gattu (Pittsburgh) and Pavithra Murugavel Shanthi (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to lithium-based battery systems and, more particularly, to electro-spinable solution compositions, electro-spun sulfur-polymer fibers, e.g., wires and yarns, and their use in preparing high performance sulfur mattes, e.g....