US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Aug. 12 for "Manufacturing mixed Fe/V electrolytes for flow batteries" (Saudi Arabia, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,104, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Manufacturing mixed Fe/V electrolytes for flow batteries" was invented by Ahmad D. Hammad (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Issam T. Amr (Khobar, Saudi Arabia), Yueqi Liu (Mukilteo, Wash.) and Zhenguo Yang (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrolyte, a method for making the electrolyte, and a flow cell battery are provided. The electrolyte includes about 1.0 molar (M) to about 1.5 M iron ions and about 1.0 M to about 1.5 M vanadium ions."

The patent was filed on Feb. 15, 2022, under Application No. 17/671,948.

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