ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,107, issued on July 15, was assigned to Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

"Non-flammable redox-mediated bioelectrolyte" was invented by Emre Cevik (Dammam, Saudi Arabia), Atheel Awad Almofleh (Dammam, Saudi Arabia) and Ayhan Bozkurt (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A supercapacitor including two electrodes, and a gel electrolyte. The gel electrolyte includes glycerol, benzoquinone, phosphoric acid, and boric acid. The gel electrolyte is non-aqueous. The glycerol, phosphoric acid, and boric acid form a hydrogen bonding network. The benzoquinone is homogeneously dispersed within the hydr...