ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,641, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to PwrJoule LLC (Galveston, Texas).

"Magnetic flow battery" was invented by William Charles Nunnally (Galveston, Texas), Bret Alan Raymis (Yuma, Ariz.) and Dwaine Kenton Coates (Joplin, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method including an ion transfer cell including a first side and a second side separated by an ion-permeable membrane. A first flow channel is included on the first side, where the first flow channel includes a first liquid electrolyte slurry, where the first liquid electrolyte slurry comprises first particles, where the first particles are configured to accept or d...