US Patent Issued to Zeta Energy on Oct. 21 for "Cathode with layers of anode reductant and solid-electrolyte interphase" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,479, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Zeta Energy LLC (Houston).

"Cathode with layers of anode reductant and solid-electrolyte interphase" was invented by Abdul-Rahman Olabode Raji (Houston), Tuo Wang (Houston) and Rodrigo Villegas Salvatierra (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described is a lithium-sulfur electrochemical cell in which the anode and the cathode are each equipped with a respective solid-electrolyte interphase (SEI) layer that inhibits lithium side reactions. On the cathode side, the SEI layer inhibits the shuttle effect by retaining soluble polysulfides within a cathode active layer while releasing and admitti...