US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on April 21 for "Structural supercapacitors with reinforced interfaces to increase multifunctional efficiency" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,251, issued on April 21, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Structural supercapacitors with reinforced interfaces to increase multifunctional efficiency" was invented by Tse Nga Ng (San Diego) and Lulu Yao (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the presently disclosed technology provide improved structural supercapacitors that increase multi-functional efficiency (i.e., improve energy-storage and mechanical load-bearing capacity/performance). Structural supercapacitors of the present technology achieve such improvements in part by focusing on interfaces between str...