US Patent Issued to The Johns Hopkins University on Oct. 28 for "Textile and fiber energy storage and power-generating devices" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,748, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore).

"Textile and fiber energy storage and power-generating devices" was invented by Konstantinos Gerasopoulos (Highland, Md.), Michael H. Jin (Ellicott City, Md.), Spencer A. Langevin (Columbia, Md.), Adam W. Freeman (Laurel, Md.), Evan D. Jacque (Columbia, Md.), Nathan J. Fairbanks (Montgomery Village, Md.) and Luke J. Currano (Columbia, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A layered textile energy storage device can include first and second encasing layers, an anode, a cathode, and a flexible separator layer. The first and second encasing layers can each in...