ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. RE50,352, issued on March 25, was assigned to Pronoia Inc. (Los Angeles).

"Quantum dipole battery" was invented by Woo Yong Lie (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric energy storage device has first and second conductor layers, a plastic sheet, a quantum dot, and positive and negative electrodes wherein the first and second conductor layers has surfaces coated with ionic or dipole material. The first conductor layer is stacked on top of the second conductor layer with a nanometer-scale interval and with the ionic material layer inbetween, forming a bilayer structure and a quantum heterostructure. Millions of bilayers are s...