ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,941, issued on May 27, was assigned to Avery Dennison Retail Information Services LLC (Mentor, Ohio).

"Diatomaceous energy storage devices" was invented by Vera N. Lockett (Phoenix), Yasser Salah (Tempe, Ariz.), John G. Gustafson (Chandler, Ariz.), William J. Ray (Fountain Hills, Ariz.) and Sri Harsha Kolli (Tempe, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed technology generally relates to energy storage devices, and more particularly to energy storage devices comprising frustules. According to an aspect, a supercapacitor comprises a pair of electrodes and an electrolyte, wherein at least one of the electrodes comprises a plur...