Patents by Inventor Boris Kozinsky

Boris Kozinsky has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11884561
    Abstract: A device for removing chloride-containing salts from water includes a container configured to contain saline water, a first electrode arranged in fluid communication with the saline water, and a power source. The first electrode includes a conversion material that is substantially insoluble in the saline water and has a composition that includes at least two or more of aluminum, chlorine, copper, iron, oxygen, and potassium. The composition varies over a range with respect to a quantity of chloride ions per formula unit. The power source supplies current to the first electrode in a first operating state so as to induce a reversible conversion reaction in which the conversion material bonds to the chloride ions in the saline water to generate a treated water solution. The conversion material dissociates the chloride ions therefrom into the saline water solution in a second operating state to generate a wastewater solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Mordechai C. Kornbluth, Jonathan Mailoa, Soo Kim, Georgy Samsonidze, Boris Kozinsky, Saravanan Kuppan, Sondra Hellstrom, Nathan Craig
  • Patent number: 11884560
    Abstract: A water softening device includes a container configured to contain water, first and second electrodes arranged in fluid communication with the water, and a power source. The first electrode includes a conversion material that has a first composition and a second composition coexisting with the first composition. The first composition includes calcium ions bonded thereto and the second composition includes sodium ions bonded thereto. The power source supplies current in a first operating state such that the second composition exchanges sodium ions for calcium ions in the water to generate a soft water solution. The first and second electrodes are connected in a second operating state such that the first composition exchanges calcium ions for sodium ions in the water to generate a wastewater solution. The conversion material undergoes a reversible conversion reaction to convert between the first and second compositions within the water stability window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Mordechai C. Kornbluth, Jonathan Mailoa, Soo Kim, Georgy Samsonidze, Boris Kozinsky, Saravanan Kuppan, Sondra Hellstrom, Nathan Craig
  • Patent number: 11872561
    Abstract: A system for stretching a polynucleotide structure includes a first electrode configured to generate an electrostatic force perpendicular to a surface of the first electrode and to apply the electrostatic force to the polynucleotide structure to pin an end region of the polynucleotide structure near the surface of the first electrode, and a second electrode configured to generate an electric force along an axial direction of the polynucleotide structure to stretch the polynucleotide structure along the axial direction of the polynucleotide structure into a fully extended form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Karim Gadelrab, Mordechai Kornbluth, Jake Christensen, Christopher Johnson, Boris Kozinsky
  • Patent number: 11834354
    Abstract: A desalination battery includes a first electrode, a second electrode, an intercalation compound contained in the first electrode, a container configured to contain a saline water solution, and a power source. The intercalation compound includes at least one of a metal oxide, a metalloid oxide, a metal oxychloride, a metalloid oxychloride, and a hydrate thereof with each having a ternary or higher order. The first and second electrodes are configured to be arranged in fluid communication with the saline water solution. The power source is configured to supply electric current to the first and second electrodes in different operating states to induce a reversible intercalation reaction within the intercalation compound. The intercalation compound reversibly stores and releases target anions from the saline water solution to generate a fresh water solution in one operating state and a wastewater solution in another operating state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Soo Kim, Mordechai Kornbluth, Jonathan Mailoa, Georgy Samsonidze, Michael Metzger, Saravanan Kuppan, Sondra Hellstrom, Boris Kozinsky, Nathan Craig
  • Patent number: 11820681
    Abstract: A desalination device includes a container, first and second electrodes, an anion exchange membrane (AEM), and a power source. The container contains saline water that has an elevated concentration of dissolved salts. The AEM separates the container into first and second compartments into which the first and second electrodes, respectively, are arranged. The AEM has a continuous porous structure and a plurality of negatively-charged oxygen functional groups coupled to the porous structure. The power source is configured to selectively apply a voltage to one of the first and second electrodes. The AEM has a selective permeability when the voltage is applied such that cations in the saline water solution have a first diffusion rate d1 therethrough and anions in the saline water solution have a second diffusion rate d2 therethrough. The first diffusion rate d1 is less than the second diffusion rate d2 and greater than or equal to zero.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Soo Kim, Jonathan Mailoa, Mordechai Kornbluth, Georgy Samsonidze, Michael Metzger, Saravanan Kuppan, Sondra Hellstrom, Boris Kozinsky, Nathan Craig
  • Patent number: 11817184
    Abstract: A computational method simulating the motion of elements within a multi-element system using a graph neural network (GNN). The method includes converting a molecular dynamics snapshot of the elements into a directed graph comprised of nodes and edges. The method further includes the step of initially embedding the nodes and the edges to obtain initially embedded nodes and edges. The method also includes updating the initially embedded nodes and edges by passing a first message from a first edge to a first node using a first message function and passing a second message from the first node to the first edge using a second message function to obtain updated embedded nodes and edges, and predicting a force vector for one or more elements based on the updated embedded edges and a unit vector pointing from the first node to a second node or the second node to the first node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Cheol Woo Park, Jonathan Mailoa, Mordechai Kornbluth, Georgy Samsonidze, Soo Kim, Karim Gadelrab, Boris Kozinsky, Nathan Craig
  • Patent number: 11757104
    Abstract: A catalyst support material for a proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC). The catalyst support material includes a metal material of an at least partially oxidized form of TiNb3O6 reactive with H3O+, HF and/or SO3? to form reaction products in which the metal material of the at least partially oxidized form of TiNb3O6 accounts for a stable molar percentage of the reaction products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Soo Kim, Jonathan Mailoa, Mordechai Kornbluth, Lei Cheng, Georgy Samsonidze, Boris Kozinsky, Nathan Craig
  • Patent number: 11527754
    Abstract: A solid-state composite electrode includes active electrode particles, ionically conductive particles, and electrically conductive particles. Each of the ionically conductive particles is at least partially coated with an isolation material that inhibits inter-diffusion of the ionically conductive particles with the active electrode particles. A battery cell includes a first current collector, a solid electrolyte layer, a first solid-state composite electrode having ionically conductive particles coated with an isolation material and positioned between the first current collector and the solid electrolyte layer, a second current collector, and a second electrode positioned between the solid electrolyte layer and the second current collector. A method of forming a solid-state composite electrode includes mixing together active electrode particles and electrically conductive particles with ionically conductive particles that are each at least partially coated with an isolation material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: John F. Christensen, Nathan P. Craig, Sondra Hellstrom, Boris Kozinsky, Saravanan Kuppan
  • Patent number: 11455439
    Abstract: A computational method for simulating the motion of elements within a multi-element system using a neural network force field (NNFF). The method includes receiving a combination of a number of rotationally-invariant features and a number of rotationally-covariant features of a local environment of the multi-element system; and predicting a force vector for each element within the multi-element system based on the combination of the number of rotationally-invariant features, the number of rotationally-covariant features, and the NNFF, to obtain a simulated motion of the elements within the multi-element system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Jonathan Mailoa, Mordechai Kornbluth, Georgy Samsonidze, Boris Kozinsky, Nathan Craig
  • Patent number: 11444292
    Abstract: An anticorrosive and conductive substrate includes a bulk portion and a surface portion including a magnesium titanium material having a formula (I) TixMg1-xOy (I), where x is a number from 0 to ?1 and y is a number from 1 to ?2, and wherein at least about 50% of the magnesium titanium material has a cubic crystal structure, and wherein the magnesium titanium material is configured to impart anticorrosive and conductive properties to the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Mordechai Kornbluth, Soo Kim, Jonathan Mailoa, Lei Cheng, Georgy Samsonidze, Boris Kozinsky, Nathan Craig, Saravanan Kuppan, Sondra Hellstrom, Jake Christensen
  • Patent number: 11404703
    Abstract: A proton-exchange-membrane fuel cell bipolar plate includes a metal substrate having a bulk portion and a surface portion including an anticorrosive, conductive binary phosphide material having a formula (I): AxPy??(I), where A is an alkali metal, alkaline earth metal, transition metal, post-transition metal, or metalloid, x, y is each a number independently selected from 1 to 15, and the binary phosphide material is configured to impart anticorrosive and conductive properties to the metal substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Soo Kim, Lei Cheng, Georgy Samsonidze, Mordechai Kornbluth, Jonathan Mailoa, Sondra Hellstrom, Boris Kozinsky, Nathan Craig
  • Patent number: 11377738
    Abstract: A method of applying a coating to a flow field plate of a fuel cell. The method includes applying a solution including a metal-containing precursor and a solvent to at least a portion of a surface of a flow field plate, and evaporating the solvent to form a coating on the at least the portion of the surface of the flow field plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Soo Kim, Mordechai Kornbluth, Jonathan Mailoa, Lei Cheng, Georgy Samsonidze, Boris Kozinsky, Nathan Craig
  • Patent number: 11376565
    Abstract: A method of forming a fuel cell catalyst system, the method includes providing an anticorrosive, conductive catalyst support material having oxygen vacancies and a formula (I): MgTi2O5-???(I), where ? is any number between 0 and 3 optionally including a fractional part denoting the oxygen vacancies, coating the catalyst support material with a polymeric film, attaching a catalyst material onto the polymeric film, removing the polymeric film, and providing additional material onto the support material to increase physical, electrical, and/or mechanical contact between the catalyst material and the catalyst support material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Jonathan Mailoa, Soo Kim, Boris Kozinsky
  • Patent number: 11205783
    Abstract: Corrosion-resistant oxide films for use with proton exchange membrane fuel cells are described. Bipolar plates of proton exchange membrane fuel cells are subject to highly-acidic environments that can degrade the bulk material and associated properties of the bipolar plate leading to reduced proton exchange membrane fuel cell lifetimes. Materials, structures, and techniques for increasing the corrosion resistance of bipolar plates are disclosed. Such materials include substrates having a surface portion, which includes an Fe2O3 oxide layer having (110), (012), or (100) Fe2O3 surface facets configured to impart corrosion-resistance properties to the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Soo Kim, Mordechai Kornbluth, Jonathan Mailoa, Georgy Samsonidze, Lei Cheng, Sondra Hellstrom, Boris Kozinsky, Nathan Craig
  • Patent number: 11145875
    Abstract: A fuel cell first and second electrode catalyst layers and a polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) situated therebetween. A graphene-based material coated onto a first and/or second surface of the first and/or second electrode catalyst layers. The graphene-based material has a number of defects including a number of quad-vacancy (QV) defects formed by a vacancy of four adjacent carbon atoms in the graphene-based material. The number of QV defects are configured to mitigate dissolution of the first and/or second catalyst materials through the first and/or second surface of the first and/or second electrode catalyst layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Soo Kim, Jonathan Mailoa, Mordechai Kornbluth, Yelena Gorlin, Georgy Samsonidze, Boris Kozinsky, Nathan Craig
  • Patent number: 11127976
    Abstract: New sulfur-based polyesters have been synthesized. When these polymers are combined with electrolyte salts, such polymer electrolytes have shown excellent electrochemical oxidation stability in lithium battery cells. Their stability along with their excellent ionic transport properties make them especially suitable as electrolytes in high energy density lithium battery cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Malar Azagarsamy, Kulandaivelu Sivanandan, Hany Basam Eitouni, Jonathan P. Mailoa, Georgy Samsonidze, Boris Kozinsky, Mordechai Kornbluth
  • Patent number: 11101495
    Abstract: New phosphorous-based polyesters have been synthesized. When these polymers are combined with electrolyte salts, such polymer electrolytes have shown excellent electrochemical oxidation stability in lithium battery cells. Their stability along with their excellent ionic transport properties make them especially suitable as electrolytes in high energy density lithium battery cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Malar Azagarsamy, Kulandaivelu Sivanandan, Hany Basam Eitouni, Jonathan P. Mailoa, Georgy Samsonidze, Boris Kozinsky, Mordechai Kornbluth
  • Publication number: 20210143430
    Abstract: A solid-state composite electrode includes active electrode particles, ionically conductive particles, and electrically conductive particles. Each of the ionically conductive particles is at least partially coated with an isolation material that inhibits inter-diffusion of the ionically conductive particles with the active electrode particles. A battery cell includes a first current collector, a solid electrolyte layer, a first solid-state composite electrode having ionically conductive particles coated with an isolation material and positioned between the first current collector and the solid electrolyte layer, a second current collector, and a second electrode positioned between the solid electrolyte layer and the second current collector. A method of forming a solid-state composite electrode includes mixing together active electrode particles and electrically conductive particles with ionically conductive particles that are each at least partially coated with an isolation material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Inventors: John F. Christensen, Nathan P. Craig, Sondra Hellstrom, Boris Kozinsky, Saravanan Kuppan
  • Patent number: 10988391
    Abstract: A desalination battery includes a container configured to contain a saline water solution having a first concentration c1 of dissolved salts; first and second intercalation hosts, arranged to be in fluid communication with the saline water solution, at least the first intercalation host including expanded graphite having a plurality of graphene layers with an interlayer spacing between the graphene layers in z-direction greater than 0.34 nm; and a power source configured to supply electric current to the first and second intercalation hosts such that the first and second intercalation hosts reversibly store and release cations and anions from the saline water solution located between the plurality of graphene layers to generate a fresh water solution having a second concentration c2 of dissolved salts and a brine solution having a third concentration c3 of dissolved salts within the container such that c3>c1>c2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GmbH
    Inventors: Soo Kim, Jonathan Mailoa, Mordechai Kornbluth, Georgy Samsonidze, Michael Metzger, Saravanan Kuppan, Sondra Hellstrom, Boris Kozinsky, Nathan Craig
  • Publication number: 20210098820
    Abstract: An electrolyte structure for a battery cell with a lithium metal anode has a first side configured to contact the anode and a second side facing opposite the first side. The electrolyte structure includes a first region that is adjacent to the first side and extends towards the second side and a second region disposed between the first region and the second side. The first region has a first composition of materials that is electronically insulating such that the electrolyte is stable against the lithium metal anode. The second region has a second composition of materials that is different than the first composition and has typical electrolyte properties such as mechanical strength, stability against a cathode, and ionic conductivity. The first region and the second region define a compositional gradient across a thickness of the electrolyte structure. The compositional gradient is continuum-fabricated at one point via a gradient growth method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Inventors: John F. Christensen, Jonathan Mailoa, Boris Kozinsky, Georgy Samsonidze, Mordechai Kornbluth