ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,043, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Physically activated carbon for all-solid-state supercapacitors and methods of preparation thereof" was invented by Aziz Ahmad (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Mohammed Ashraf G. Gondal (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Atif Alzahrani (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrode including a substrate, a binding compound, date seed mesoporous carbon, and a conductive carbon (CC) other than the date seed mesoporous carbon. The date seed mesoporous carbon has a surface area of 600-800 m2/g, an average pore size of 1-5...