US Patent Issued to Wirtz Manufacturing on Dec. 2 for "Battery electrode continuous casting drum, shoe, machine and method" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,118, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Wirtz Manufacturing Co. Inc. (Port Huron, Mich.).

"Battery electrode continuous casting drum, shoe, machine and method" was invented by Michael R. Romeo (St. Clair, Mich.), Jason P. Miller (Cottrellville, Mich.), Aleksander Mrdenovic (Fort Gratiot, Mich.), John O. Wirtz (Fort Gratiot, Mich.) and John W. Wirtz II (Fort Gratiot, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For making battery electrodes, a composite strip of a cast ribbon of an electrically conductive metal attached to and extending along an edge of a web of electrically conductive carbon fiber material, also called a carbon felt in some ex...