US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University on Nov. 4 for "Membrane-free Zn/MnO 2 flow battery for large-scale energy storage" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,200, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.).

"Membrane-free Zn/MnO 2 flow battery for large-scale energy storage" was invented by Guodong Li (Stanford, Calif.), Wei Chen (Stanford, Calif.) and Yi Cui (Stanford, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application is a 371 National Stage of International Application No. PCT/US2020/028141, filed Apr. 14, 2020, which claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 62/835,954, filed Apr. 18, 2019, each of which are incorporated by reference herein in their entirety."

The patent was filed on April...