US Patent Issued to Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University on July 21 for "Supercapacitor battery with polyacrylic acid hydrogel electrolyte" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,981, issued on July 21, was assigned to Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

"Supercapacitor battery with polyacrylic acid hydrogel electrolyte" was invented by Ayhan Bozkurt (Dammam, Saudi Arabia) and Emre Cevik (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flexible energy storage device with a redox-active polymer hydrogel electrolyte is provided. The flexible energy storage device can include a pair of electrodes separated by the redox-active polymer hydrogel electrolyte. The redox-active polymer hydrogel electrolyte can include a polymer hydrogel, charge balancing anions and redox-active transit...