US Patent Issued to The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army on Sept. 2 for "Dielectric capacitor formed of a dielectric-coated electrically conductive porous scaffold filled with metal" (Maryland, Delaware Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,805, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington).

"Dielectric capacitor formed of a dielectric-coated electrically conductive porous scaffold filled with metal" was invented by Brendan M. Hanrahan (Silver Spring, Md.) and Nathan S. Lazarus (Bear, Del.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Novel dielectric capacitor devices include an electrically conductive porous scaffold forming a first conductor, a conformal thin dielectric uniformly coating the pores, and a metal or alloy which fills the conformal dielectric coated pores of the scaffold forming a second conduct...