ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,094, issued on July 14, was assigned to Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

"Split cell electrode supercapacitor" was invented by Emre Cevik (Dammam, Saudi Arabia), Munerah Abdullah Almessiere (Dammam, Saudi Arabia), Abdulhadi Baykal (Dammam, Saudi Arabia) and Ayhan Bozkurt (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nanocomposite electrode and supercapacitor thereof are disclosed. The nanocomposite electrode includes a substrate, at least one binding compound, at least one carbonaceous compound, and vanadium doped spinel ferrite nanoparticles (V-SFNPs). The V-SFNPs have a formula of CoxNi1-xVyFe...