US Patent Issued to REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN on July 22 for "Flow batteries with insoluble polymer supported redox active materials" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,177, issued on July 22, was assigned to REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"Flow batteries with insoluble polymer supported redox active materials" was invented by Thomas Vaid (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A redox matched flow battery utilizes insoluble functionalized catholyte and anolyte beads to store charge on redox-active moieties tethered to the beads, with charge being transferred between the electrodes and the bead using a soluble, redox-matched mediator."

The patent was filed on Oct. 7, 2022, under Application No. 17/961,831.

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