US Patent Issued to Sumitomo Electric Industries on July 14 for "Redox flow battery system and method for operating redox flow battery" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,175, issued on July 14, was assigned to Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Redox flow battery system and method for operating redox flow battery" was invented by Takefumi Ito (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A redox flow battery system includes a battery cell that performs charge-discharge by supplying an electrolyte; a monitor cell to which the electrolyte is supplied; a voltmeter that measures an open circuit voltage of the monitor cell; a thermometer that measures a liquid temperature of the electrolyte; and a controller that controls the charge-discharge of the battery cell based on the open circuit vo...