US Patent Issued to QuSwami on May 20 for "Pre-equilibrium system and method using solid-state devices as energy converters using nano-engineered porous network materials" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,372, issued on May 20, was assigned to QuSwami Inc. (San Francisco).

"Pre-equilibrium system and method using solid-state devices as energy converters using nano-engineered porous network materials" was invented by Jawahar M. Gidwani (San Francisco), Andrew Lam (San Francisco) and Attila Horvath (Richmond, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An energy conversion device for conversion of various energy forms into electricity. The energy forms may be chemical, photovoltaic or thermal gradients. The energy conversion device has a first and second electrode. A substrate is present that has a porous semiconductor or dielectric layer pla...