US Patent Issued to Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University on July 21 for "Gel electrolyte supercapacitor" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,978, issued on July 21, was assigned to Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

"Gel electrolyte supercapacitor" was invented by Ayhan Bozkurt (Dammam, Saudi Arabia), Emre Cevik (Dammam, Saudi Arabia) and Seyda Tugba Gunday Anil (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A supercapacitor including a gel electrode and two electrodes is described. Each of the two electrodes include a second mixture of 5-10 wt. % conductive additive, 5-10 wt. % binding compound, and 80-90 wt. % activated carbon. Further, the second mixture is at least partially coated on an inner surface of a substrate, and where the inn...