ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,821, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to IONECH Ltd. (London).

"Energy storage and conversion using fluid energy and electric field to create electric charge" was invented by Nathan Owen (Dorset, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for converting energy of a fluid to electrical energy is disclosed. The device comprises a pressure vessel having an inlet port for a fluid. A pair of charge collecting electrodes is spaced apart from each other along a collection direction and disposed within the pressure vessel. An electric field generator is configured to generate an electric field in the pressure vessel along a field...