ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,056, issued on April 29, was assigned to 10644137 CANADA INC. (Calgary, Canada).

"Metacapacitors and power-electronic converters for power-electronic systems" was invented by Majid Pahlevaninezhad (Calgary, Canada), Hamid Pahlevaninezhad (Calgary, Canada), Milad Zareie (Calgary, Canada), Behzad Poorali (Calgary, Canada) and Suzan Eren (Calgary, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Power-electronic systems and components thereof such as electrical-energy storage apparatuses/subsystems in the form of supercapacitors and power-electronic apparatuses/subsystems are disclosed. A supercapacitor has a conductive or semi-conductive first met...