ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,191, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to International Engine Intellectual Property Co. LLC (Lisle, Ill.).
"Energy recovery using supercapacitors" was invented by Shouhao Wu (South Barrington, Ill.) and Weiying Yang (Buffalo Grove, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical energy recovery, storage, and distribution system that may be used in a vehicle. The system may include a supercapacitor configured to quickly store large amounts of energy. The system may also include multiple circuits operating at different voltage levels, such that an output voltage from the supercapacitor is useful over a larger voltage range and the s...