ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,597, issued on March 3, was assigned to University of Kansas (Lawrence, Kan.).
"Flow battery systems and methods of using the same" was invented by Trung Van Nguyen (Lawrence, Kan.) and Yuanchao Li (Lawrence, Kan.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Flow battery systems are provided, including flowing a liquid electrolyte from a storage tank of a flow battery system to an electrode chamber of the flow battery system, the liquid electrolyte comprising a solvent and a first active ion dissolved in the solvent, wherein the storage tank comprises the liquid electrolyte and a first solid composed of the active ion and an ion of the solvent; in...