ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,767, issued on June 17, was assigned to Kilowatt Labs Inc. (New York).

"Supercapacitor based energy storage device" was invented by Waseem Ashraf Qureshi (Dubai, United Arab Emirates).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An energy storage device includes a charge storage assembly, an auxiliary storage element, and a charge control circuit. The charge storage assembly includes an array of supercapacitors coupled in series, a plurality of batteries, and a charge retention circuit. Each of the plurality of batteries is electrically coupled to a corresponding supercapacitor in the array of supercapacitors. The charge retention circuit is config...