ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,650, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to HYDRO-QUEBEC (Montreal, Canada).
"Ionic plastic crystals, compositions comprising same, methods for manufacturing same and uses thereof" was invented by Jean-Christophe Daigle (St-Bruno-de-Montarville, Canada), Francis Barray (Saint-Simon de Bagot, Canada), Abdelbast Guerfi (Brossard, Canada), Benoit Fleutot (Boucherville, Canada), Emmanuelle Garitte (Montreal, Canada), Sergey Krachkovskiy (Boucherville, Canada) and Ki Seok Koh (Longueuil, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology relates to an ionic plastic crystal comprising at least one delocalized anion paired with at lea...