US Patent Issued to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation on May 6 for "Pyridinium derivatives made by hydrothermal synthesis for use as anolytes in electrochemical cells" (Wisconsin, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,513, issued on May 6, was assigned to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wis.).

"Pyridinium derivatives made by hydrothermal synthesis for use as anolytes in electrochemical cells" was invented by Dawei Feng (Madison, Wis.), Xiuliang Lyu (Madison, Wis.), Patrick Sullivan (Madison, Wis.) and Wenjie Li (Ithaca, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Pyridinium derivatives, methods of making the pyridinium derivatives, and electrochemical cells that use the pyridinium derivatives as anolytes are provided. The pyridinium derivatives have a redox core with two or more pyridinium groups and substituents at pyridinium ring nitrogen...