US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of Michigan, INMATECH on April 8 for "Systems and methods for improved supercapacitors with ionic liquid electrolytes" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,495, issued on April 8, was assigned to The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and INMATECH INC. (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"Systems and methods for improved supercapacitors with ionic liquid electrolytes" was invented by Saemin Choi (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Abdoulaye Djire (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Levi T. Thompson (Superior Township, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems and methods for a supercapacitor. One form of the supercapacitor has a first electrode comprising a first active material, a second electrode comprising a second active material, and an electrolyte comprising a protic ionic liquid. The p...