US Patent Issued to King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals on April 21 for "Aqueous zinc-ion battery cell" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,413, issued on April 21, was assigned to King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Aqueous zinc-ion battery cell" was invented by Arshad Hussain (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Md. Abdul Aziz (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Mostafa Mahmoud Mohamed (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Mohammad Rezaul Karim (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aqueous zinc-ion battery cell which includes a membrane, an electrolyte solution, a zinc metal anode, and a cathode. The membrane includes electrospun polyethylenimine (PEI) and polyacrylonitrile (PAN) in the form of entangled nanofibers. The cathode contains one or mo...