ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,110, issued on May 13, was assigned to HERAEUS BATTERY TECHNOLOGY GMBH (Hanau, Germany).

"Process for preparing a porous carbon material and a porous carbon material obtainable by this process" was invented by Julie Michaud-Bernlochner (Hanau, Germany), Andreas Kuhn (Hanau, Germany), Evgeniia Komarova (Hanau, Germany), Benjamin Kruner (Hanau, Germany) and Jorg Becker (Hanau, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Known processes for preparing a porous carbon material with a hierarchical porosity comprise the steps of a) providing at least one carbon source and at least one amphiphilic species, b) combining the carbon source and the a...