ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,528, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Arlington, Va.).
"In-situ electrolyte preparation in flow battery" was invented by Weina Li (South Glastonbury, Conn.) and Michael L. Perry (Glastonbury, Conn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of in-situ electrolyte preparation in a flow battery includes providing a vanadium-based electrolyte solution having vanadium ions of predominantly vanadium V4+ to a first electrode and a second electrode of at least one cell of a flow battery. The vanadium V4+ at the first electrode is converted to vanadium V3+ and the vanadium V4+ at the second electrode is converted to vanadium V5+ by...