ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 24 -- A123 Systems, Waltham, Massachusetts, has been assigned a patent (9,685,678) developed by three co-inventors for "electrode materials with a synthetic solid electrolyte interface." The co-inventors are Viet Vu, Canton, Michigan, Jinjun Shi, San Jose, California, and Pu Zhang, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

The patent application was filed on Feb. 4, 2014 (14/765,808). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1 . . .