US Patent Issued to Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, Dankook University on April 1 for "Transparent microbial energy device" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,266,836, issued on April 1, was assigned to Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, Dankook University (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Transparent microbial energy device" was invented by Eun Ju Lim (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Young Seok Song (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transparent microbial energy device includes a first transparent electrode, a first hydrogel layer disposed on the first transparent electrode, an ion conductive polymer electrolyte membrane disposed on the first hydrogel layer, a second hydrogel layer disclosed on the ion conductive polymer electrolyte membrane, and a second transparent electrode d...