US Patent Issued to KOREA INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY on May 5 for "Submarine power supply system and power supply method using seawater battery" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,620,602, issued on May 5, was assigned to KOREA INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY (Busan, South Korea).

"Submarine power supply system and power supply method using seawater battery" was invented by Hee Jin Kang (Gyeryong-si, South Korea), Young Shik Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Yun Ho Kim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Jang Pyo Hong (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Proposed are a submarine power supply system and power supply method using a seawater battery, the system having a chargeable/dischargeable battery that is arranged on the outside of a pressure hull, so as to use, as a cathode, sodium ions dissolved in seaw...