ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,506, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS (Urbana, Ill.).
"Flow channels for optimal or improved delivery of fluid to porous electrochemical / chemical media" was invented by Kyle Christopher Smith (Champaign, Ill.), Erik Richard Reale (Martinez, Calif.), Irwin Cunnie Loud IV (Oak Park, Ill.) and Vu Quoc Do (Urbana, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a porous electrode that includes a porous layer, and a pattern of flow channels defined in the porous layer, wherein a first flow channel in the pattern of flow channels has a s...