ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,047, issued on April 15, was assigned to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and KING ABDULLAH CITY FOR ATOMIC & RENEWABLE ENERGY (K.A. CARE) (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

"Self-sulfur doped carbon electrodes derived from poly-anthraquinone sulfide for supercapacitors" was invented by Aziz Ahmad (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Sami Ullah (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Sardaraz Khan (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Safyan Akram Khan (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A supercapacitor including a negative electrode, a positive electrode, an electrolyte, and a separator. The separator is between the negative...