US Patent Issued to Xerox on March 18 for "Current control systems and methods" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,586, issued on March 18, was assigned to Xerox Corp. (Norwalk, Conn.).

"Current control systems and methods" was invented by Sean E. Doris (San Francisco), Warren B. Jackson (San Francisco) and Adrien Pierre (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system that includes an energy device having an active region configured to generate or consume electrical energy provided by an electrical current is discussed. A current limiter is disposed between the energy device and a current collector layer. The current limiter controls the current flow between the energy device and the current collector layer. A plurality of electrochemi...